Category Archives: Music for a Sunday

El Sistema, the Venezuelan national youth orchestra program, has put together a historic tribute to Chavecito’s life and times. Everything from the false democracy of the Punto Fijo pact (and its most disastrous outgrowth, the Caracazo), to the social missions … Continue reading →

These two songs were both originally dedicated to Che Guevara, the original “Comandante Amigo” of Latin American revolutionaries everywhere. But without much adaptation, I think they could also serve to commemorate another Comandante Amigo, one who just passed over recently, … Continue reading →

First up, a little gloom-and-doom music from Globomojón: Ha, ha, psych. Actually, that’s Ska-P, the Spanish anarchist ska-punk band. They used to think that Chavecito was just another “authoritarian socialist” — a complete contradiction in terms, of course, since real … Continue reading →