{"id":53940,"date":"2025-08-25T12:41:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T15:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museomoderno.org\/?p=53940"},"modified":"2025-09-18T17:19:53","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T20:19:53","slug":"nacha-guevara-aqui-estoy-la-cancion-politica-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museomoderno.org\/en\/nacha-guevara-aqui-estoy-la-cancion-politica-english\/","title":{"rendered":"Nacha Guevara: Aqu\u00ed estoy La Canci\u00f3n Pol\u00edtica English"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Los pobres odian a los ricos,
<\/span>los ricos odian a los pobres.
<\/span>Odiar hasta a los amigos
<\/span>es un juego establecido pero\u2026
<\/span>En el D\u00eda de la Amnist\u00eda
<\/span>Lanusse toma el t\u00e9 con Ongan\u00eda.
<\/span>Seamos complacientes con los que despreciamos
<\/span>siempre que esto no provoque cambios.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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The poor hate the rich,
<\/span>the rich hate the poor.
<\/span>Hating even one\u2019s friends
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<\/span>Lanusse has tea with Ongan\u00eda.
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\u2018El D\u00eda de la Amnist\u00eda\u2019 [\u2018Amnesty Day\u2019], a Spanish version of the Tom Lehrer song, performed by Nacha Guevara on the album Este es el a\u00f1o que es [This Is the Year That Is] (1971)<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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In the early 1970s in Argentina, art was being created against the backdrop of the military dictatorship (the self-proclaimed <\/span>Argentine Revolution<\/span><\/i>), as well as repression, political violence and popular uprisings. Following the \u2018Viborazo\u2019 strike in C\u00f3rdoba \u2014a mass protest organised by workers and students on 15 March 1971 \u2014 General Levingston, the second de facto president of the military regime, was forced to step down, giving way to the arrival of the third, General Lanusse. The country entered a period of deepening tensions marked by an intensification of the activities of armed organisations, growing support for Peronism from those exiled abroad, and increasingly apparent social unrest. As Lanusse promoted the \u2018Gran Acuerdo Nacional\u2019 [\u2018Great National Agreement\u2019] as a controlled means of transition to democracy, the government entered into talks with Per\u00f3n, exiled in Spain. On 3 September 1971, the body of Eva Per\u00f3n \u2014 stolen by a Navy commando unit in 1955 \u2014 was returned to him.<\/span><\/p>

During that turbulent year at the beginning of the 1970s, Nacha Guevara premiered her new show, <\/span>Este es el a\u00f1o que es<\/span><\/i> [<\/span>This Is the Year That Is<\/span><\/i>], with musical direction by Alberto Favero and set design by Claudio Segovia. Recorded live on 22 and 23 July at the Margarita Xirgu theatre in San Telmo, the show marked a turning point in her career. After a period of performances with a more playful and ironic tone, she now adopted an openly political attitude. The stage was covered in banners featuring slogans such as \u2018Release the political prisoners\u2019, \u2018Yankees go home\u2019 and \u2018Manrique\u2019s afraid of the dark\u2019, a reflection of the climate of social upheaval of the time. The programme included songs such as \u2018Soldadito boliviano\u2019 [\u2018Little Bolivian Soldier\u2019], by Paco Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez and Nicol\u00e1s Guill\u00e9n, about the assassination of Che Guevara, and \u2018El avestruz\u2019 [\u2018The Ostrich\u2019], by Michael Flanders and Donald Swann, as well as other songs laden with irony and critical of contemporary reality. With biting humour, Nacha tackled issues such as authoritarianism, the Cold War, the Argentine government\u2019s debt to the International Monetary Fund, and the failures of the military governments. Unlike many artists of her generation, she chose not to align herself with Peronism but instead maintained an independent voice.<\/span><\/p>

Her album <\/span>Este es el a\u00f1o que es<\/span><\/i> was an artistic statement in the face of violence, censorship and repression. It is a record of a historic moment when, more than ever before, there was a drive to challenge and mobilise society.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

POLITICAL SONGS Los pobres odian a los ricos,los ricos odian a los pobres.Odiar hasta a los amigoses un juego establecido pero\u2026En el D\u00eda de la Amnist\u00edaLanusse toma el t\u00e9 con Ongan\u00eda.Seamos complacientes con los que despreciamossiempre que esto no provoque cambios. The poor hate the rich,the rich hate the poor.Hating even one\u2019s friendsis a long-established […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/museomoderno.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/museomoderno.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/museomoderno.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museomoderno.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museomoderno.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53940"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/museomoderno.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54588,"href":"https:\/\/museomoderno.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53940\/revisions\/54588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/museomoderno.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museomoderno.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museomoderno.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}