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Think of the best songs of 2021 as a playlist catering to the most basic human urges. Within it, booties were called, muffins were buttered and bloody revenge was contemplated. It was quite a year.

Think of the best songs of 2021 as a playlist catering to the most basic human urges. Within it, booties were called, muffins were buttered and bloody revenge was contemplated. It was quite a year.

At the Latin Grammys, audiences were treated to elaborate performances that relied on unique collaborations between artists across genres.

At the Latin Grammys, audiences were treated to elaborate performances that relied on unique collaborations between artists across genres.

"Patria y vida," a Spanish hip-hop song, was nominated for “song of the year” at the Latin Grammys after becoming the anthem of the anti-government protests in Cuba.

¡Unión entre Cuba y Venezuela! Alexander Delgado y Randy Malcom junto a Pucho y Tucutu y Motiff en su nuevo lanzamiento musical "Tuki Tuki"

"No a la manipulación mental de los niños en Cuba", dijo el cantante.

DELAND — Iranis De La Torre remembers the hunger she felt at 5 years old when she and her family fled Cuba during the Mariel boatlift in 1980. Its a feeling she cant help but reflect on as an unprecedented number of people in Cuba have taken to the streets in protest of the oppressive government amid shortages of food, medical supplies and other basic necessities. "They’re saying Cubans are so hungry that they ate their fear and now they’re fearless," De La Torre said. The 46-year-old w...

View Comments If you listen closely to protesters in Cuba and Florida, you can hear people chanting "patria y vida," translating to "homeland and life." The chants reclaim a popular slogan from the Cuban revolution, homeland or death.  Protests in Cuba have been ongoing for years but reemerged last week when thousands of Cubans marched to protest food and medicine shortages, power outages and some even calling for political change.  But where did the slogan "patria y vida" come from? Cuban ...

NurPhoto via Getty Images "Patria y Vida “Patria o muerte” — “homeland or death.” It’s a phrase often emblazoned on Cuban pesos, one that was frequently invoked by former longtime leader Fidel Castro during the dawn of the country’s Communist revolution. Now, the familiar saying has been repurposed for the protest anthem “Patria y Vida,” or “homeland and life,” a subversive song by some of Cuba’s most popular musicians that rails against social repression and a severe ec...