by the El Reportero’s news services
Music lovers around the world access the social networks in order to listen to the acoustic version of the song Para bien o para mal, released today by the Guatemalan singer Ricardo Arjona and the Cuban duo Buena Fe.
The single released this Monday is included in Arjona’s new album Apague la luz y escuche, and features vocals from Israel Rojas and Yoel Martínez.
Buena Fe recently offered three concerts in Havana. This weekend the duo started to promote their album Soy in the United States.
These concerts in the United States are part of their first tour under Metamorfosis record label. Buena Fe signed in 2015 a contract with this record label, founded by Arjona.
Buena Fe was formed in Guantanamo in 1999 and its repertoire includes different musical genres, such as trova, pop and rock.
Colombian artists welcome accord for end of the conflict with FARC-E
Singer songwriters Shakira, Santiago Cruz and Juanes welcomed the agreement between the Colombian Government and the rebel (FARC-EP) to guarantee the end of the conflict between both sides, the main newspapers in the country published.
A chapter concludes and another one begins in the history of our country. It is not the time for keeping sitting there doing nothing, but for working for lasting peace that goes beyond the documents and promises. We must fight together for equal opportunities, the singer from Barraquilla, Shakira, insisted on social networks.
According to the writer of the song Estoy Aqui, offering a quality education to all children is essential to change the country.
My tears are falling, seating at an airport restaurant, heading for Colombia and I am moved after reading that the end of the conflict is closer than ever, Santiago Cruz said on a Twitter post.
It is the beginning… no more war to focus on health, education… well, on dignity, he added.
Government and Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People’s Army (FARC-EP) spokespeople announced yesterday the agreement for the bilateral ceasefire and laying down arms, a document that includes the terms and the road map that will allow implementing both stages, as well as the characteristics of its verification.
According to the agreement, supervision will be carried out by a tripartite mechanism composed of spokespeople for the Executive, the guerrilla movement and a political commission coordinated and financed by the United Nations (UN).
The UN delegation will be composed of observers from Latin American and Caribbean countries.
Latin American Poetry Festival opens in Buenos Aires
The 8th Latin American Poetry Festival will take place in Argentina, with the participation of poets from eight countries.
The event was inaugurated last night at the Solidarity Hall of the Cultural Center for Cooperation (CCC) with the presentation of eight foreign participants -Roberto Amézquita and Mario Bojórquez from Mexico, Arturo Desimone (Aruba), Mario Eraso Belalcázar (Colombia), Sarah Holland-Batt (Australia), Rosabetty Muñoz (Chile), Omar Pérez (Cuba) and Augusto Rodríguez (Ecuador) – who recited their works.
A total of 24 poets, including the locals, participate in the festival, discussing topics like Thought Poetry and the role of poetry in theater history.
