Facundo Cabral, Argentine folk singer and messenger of peace, shot dead

[Xipe Totec]

Source: Washington Post

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Fans across Latin America are mourning the death of beloved Argentine folk singer Facundo Cabral, who was shot dead by unidentified gunmen while he was on his way to the airport in Guatemala City on Saturday. He was 74.

Cabral, whose wildly popular songs mixed spirituality with social justice, is best remembered as a voice of protest against military dictatorships in Latin America. The United Nations designated him a “worldwide messenger of peace” in 1996. His protest song “No soy de aqui ni soy de ella” famously declared: “I’m not from here nor there.” (Listen to it here.)

Cabral’s car was riddled by 20 bullets, according to Guatemalan government officials. The intended victim might have been Henry Fariña Fonseca, a concert promoter and nightclub owner from Nicaragua who was also in the car. Fonseca was seriously injured in the shooting.



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Don't know if this still technically qualifies as LBN.

It is LBN to me.

God damn them to hell, whoever killed Facundo Cabral.

[MrScorpio]

1. Damn...

R.I.P., Facundo Cabral

I hope that Fonseca pulls through

[Ken Burch]

2. Holy shit. Thanks for telling us.

It's always a bad sign when they kill the singers.

[Beacool]

3. I agree, damn them to hell!!!

Rest in peace, Facundo.

:-(

[Xipe Totec]

4. Te Quiero (I Love You) A poem by Facundo Cabral

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bq53wKjzVPA

For my anglophonic friends, unfamiliar with Facundo Cabral's work, here is my humble translation of one of his works:


I told you, I'm telling you, and I will say
that love is forever
I tell you, for example
that I love you now when it is hot,
and yesterday when it rained,
on cloudy mornings
and on clear open nights.

I love you
I love you standing, laying, asleep,
and awake,
I love you at one, and at two, and at three,
and at always.

I love you,
I love you at home
and I love you on the road,
and I love you after, before, and this moment.

I love you,
I love you because you love me,
and all of you screams it at me,
I love you because in you I begin, and I end.

I love you because we found each other
and in each other we lost ourselves,
let us say that I love you, with every one that I am
including myself.


Although you know, my love,
that when I say I love you,
it is God that embellishes you through love
and I am the the steward of that beautiful task,
that is to say, when I say I love you,
It is He that says I love you.



Te dije te digo y te diré porque,
el amor es para siempre.
Te digo por ejemplo,
te quiero ahora, que hace calor,
y ayer que llovía,
en las mañanas nubladas
y en las noches abiertas,

Te quiero,
te quiero de pie, tendida, dormida
y despierta,
te quiero a la una, a las dos, a las tres,
y a las siempre.

Te quiero,
te quiero en la casa
y te quiero en el camino,
te quiero después, antes y ahora mismo.

Te quiero,
te quiero porque me quieres,
y toda tu me lo gritas,
te quiero porque en tí comienzo y termino.

Te quiero porque nos encontramos
y nos perdemos uno en el otro,
digamos que te quiero, con todos los que soy
incluyendome a mi mismo.

Aunque tu sabes mi amor,
que cuando yo digo te quiero,
es Dios que te enbellese a traves del amor
y yo soy el encargado de tan bella tarea,
es decir cada ves que yo te digo te quiero,
el te dice te quiero

[Xipe Totec]

5. Two arrested over murder of Facundo Cabral in Guatemala

Two Guatemalans, Elgin Vargas and Wilfred Stokes, were arrested by police investigating the killing.

Cabral's music promoter Henry Farina, a Nicaraguan who owns a chain of strip clubs, was believed to be the target of the attack, according to Carlos Menocal, Guatemala's Interior Minister.

Farina, who was driving the car at the time of the shooting, was badly injured and remains in a critical condition in hospital.

"One (of the killers) is the head of a band of assassins," Attorney General Claudia Paz told reporters. "He put together this group to commit murders."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandthecaribbean/guatemala/8633766/Two-arrested-over-murder-of-Facundo-Cabral-in-Guatemala.html