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Bad Bunny at the Super Bowl, a Kick Against Imperialism
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By Bruno Carvalho on February 10, 2026

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Bad Bunny at the Super Bowl

The world trembled as Bad Bunny marched onto the field at the Super Bowl,
in front of millions of spectators, with flags from every country in the
Americas, in a performance that, while a kick to imperialism, will only
find dry dust in liberal enthusiasm. While the Puerto Rican singer fired
off in Spanish, across the Gulf of Mexico, Cuba was announcing that it has
run out of jet fuel.

This medieval siege by the United States is an intolerable aggression that
suffocates a people and will not have the indignation of a bubble used to
bring its solidarity to the compass of what Washington or Brussels says.
Let me be clear: I support the Cuban revolution. However, regardless of
what we think of the Cuban political model, this is an intolerable
aggression that is leaving ambulances without fuel, universities without
electricity, and entire neighborhoods without power.

Once again, after allowing genocide in Gaza, extrajudicial killings in the
Caribbean Sea, and the kidnapping of a president, we are allowing our
leaders, with their selective indifference, to lead us into the abyss.

The problem with Cuba is not democracy or the lack thereof, because we
already realize that this is not what guides the political empathy of the
United States or the European Union.

I’ll tell you why I think Cuba is the most beautiful country in the world.
After being elected president of South Africa, Nelson Mandela visited Fidel
Castro in Havana and rebuked him. How is it that the leader of the Cuban
Revolution had not yet visited his South African homeland, he asked.
Mandela recalled that Cuba had trained ANC fighters who fought against
apartheid. When Fidel finally decided to visit South Africa, he passed
through several other countries that welcomed him as a hero. Why?

In the 1960s, Cuba supported the liberation of countries such as Algeria
and Guinea-Bissau. In the 1970s and 1980s, thousands of Cubans fought in
Angola against the South African invasion and defeated the apartheid regime
at Cuito Cuanavale. For countries such as Namibia, this victory was
fundamental to their independence.

Cuba built hospitals in Vietnam and supported resistance struggles
throughout Latin America, including Puerto Rico. It helped hide Black
Panthers and outlaws from around the world, such as Assata Shakur. They
treated thousands of children affected by the Chernobyl nuclear accident.
In many countries in the Global South, the only doctors the poorest people
have ever seen in their lives have been Cuban.

When an Ebola epidemic broke out in Sierra Leone, Cuban doctors were the
only ones who dared to confront the disease alongside the populations.
Facing a health crisis unprecedented in decades, when Covid-19 broke out,
Italy was forced to ask Cuba for help.

How can a small island blockaded for more than half a century by the
world’s greatest power, without significant natural resources, manage to
eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV? How can it be one of the
countries with the lowest infant mortality rate? How can it have an average
life expectancy on par with most developed countries?

If this doesn’t interest you, remember that Bad Bunny would not exist
without Cuba. Many of the sounds we hear today that come from the
Caribbean, including Puerto Rico, were born with the Cuban son, which, with
the immigrant community in New York, gave birth to what is known as salsa
and was fundamental to the arrival of reggaeton.

The fact that the world turns a blind eye to what is happening in Cuba,
including some of the countries that received aid from Havana, subject to
Washington’s taxes, is one of the greatest proofs of ingratitude of this
century. Cuba has often given up its park resources to stand with the
people of the world. It is time for the peoples of the world to demand even
more firmly an end to the siege and blockade.

Source: Cuba en Resumen
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