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The fight for rights
- Baruck Music
- Nov 27, 2016
- 4 min read
As musicians, you always feel dismayed by the events that happen in the world, and observing that through the songs you can express not only feelings and emotions, but ideas, wishes, opinions, and messages that through music can reach to all the world, thanks to its power of expansion, we always wanted to contribute through music in the construction of a better world.
In 2011, after arriving from our tour in Spain, we were inspired by social events in our country Venezuela and we decided to write a song which we would give a message of hope, unity, peace, love and forgiveness to the entire Venezuelan population, Which was divided between two political-social groups with different interests.
This song titled "A Song for Unity", was released on May 5, 2012, through our YouTube account, along with the song video clip, which was broadcast through social networks by the Venezuelan population for its message of unity and its similarity with the message of unity of the opposition political party called "Mesa de la Unidad Democrática" or MUD, which supported presidential candidate Henrique Capriles Radonsky for the elections of October 7, 2012. The MUD party was constituted by diverse political parties of opposition.
In the search to reach the entire Venezuelan population with the song, we began our media tour and distribution of the theme through social networks, despite of threats, persecution and attempted kidnapping against our person by supporters of venezuelan government, which began the June 19, 2012, after a live interview in the program "En Boga" of DAT TV channel, where at the end of this interview we were chased in our vehicle by a black van without identification for about 15 minutes.
However, as part of our motivation to get the song to Venezuelans, looking for a real change in the population and the union of the people. In April 7, 2013 we voluntarily attended a meeting of the political organization "Simon Bolivar Command", in San Diego's municipality, Carabobo state. This political organization grouped all the political parties of the opposition in a single one with the purpose to support Henrique Capriles Radonsky (like the candidate of the Venezuelan opposition) against Nicolas Maduro (favorite candidate by Hugo Chavez before its death). At that meeting, preparations were made for the closing of the political campaign of the presidential elections of April 14, 2013, convened after the alleged death of President Hugo Chavez in January 2013.
On April 8, 2013, we were chosen as one of the main artists of this closing event with our song "Un Canto por la Unidad" and our promotional song "Hasta adentro de tu Corazón", which we sang on April 9th 2013, in front of more than 20,000 people in the urbanization Ritec located in the Santa Rosa Parish, south of Valencia - Carabobo state. This closure of political campaign was organized by the mayor of the municipality San Diego, Vicencio "Enzo" Scarano Spisso, next to the command Simón Bolívar. The event was announced by all the media in Carabobo.
The political crisis was sharpened when the CNE proclaimed Nicolas Maduro president elected over the next six years in an electoral scenario that was not very clear and was always suspected to be manipulated by high levels of government. There were incidents in different parts of the country with complaints of burning party headquarters and acts of violence. All hopes of a change faded and the situation gradually worsened with currency devaluation, trade Intervention, Inflation, food shortages and insecurity.
In view of how difficult it was becoming for us as musicians to get the message out to the people and work for that change, when many Venezuelan opposition leaders and supporters were being unfairly besieged and imprisoned. We decided to do what many Venezuelans without hope were beginning to do, to leave the country in search of security and a quality of life, that in Venezuela we could no longer find.
On February 12, 2014, the city of Caracas joined the protests organized jointly with student movements, convened by Venezuelan opposition leaders Antonio Ledezma, María Corina Machado and Leopoldo López (mayor of the chacao municipality 2000-2008), leader of the opposition who after being harassed for a time, was imprisoned in February 2014 by the government of President Nicolás Maduro. The protests took place in several cities across the country, and the motivations alleged by opposition protesters include discontent with civil rights violations, chronic shortages of commodities, high levels of criminal violence and Cuba's alleged interference in The politics of Venezuela. These protests claimed the lives of many Venezuelan students.
Many political leaders to this day have been imprisoned and persecuted, artists and people from the television media has suffered kidnappings and some have died because of insecurity and persecution. The application of violence by the organs of the Venezuelan State against the civilian population constitutes a widespread application of the use of force, in violation of all international human rights norms, and even of the rules of International Humanitarian Law. Acts such as the widespread repression of the civilian population during peaceful demonstrations, mass arrests of students, demonstrators and bystanders in general, torture to which they have been subjected, violations of the right to a fair trial, application of prior censorship The media and attacks on the inviolability of the home or household, made us think that it would be a great risk to return to the country that still fight for its freedom
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