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>> cristina: we don't think about it, there's no hesitation. it's no. >> tito: what happened with us is that you don't know where the blame is. you don't know if you want to blame washington for this. you don't know if you have to blame our leaders for that. >> anthony: why would a bank front 70-plus billion dollars into an economy that had been in decline for quite some time. did they ever really have any reasonable expectation of getting their money back or was this a cheap way of buying a country? >> all: yeah. >> tito: thank you! ding, ding, ding! >> cristina: it's not rocket science. we n...

Good. essential. ♪ >> all: salud. >> anthony: mollejas con guineitos, sautéed chicken gizzards and green bananas. >> anthony: wow that's good. >> anthony: codfish fritters. carne guisada, a beef stew cooking since the morning. traditional mofongo. >> tito: it's like, what we call our food, you know? and these guys do a nice twist to it. >> anthony: and you make a living as a working musician just on the island? >> tito: i do but i'm lucky. i'm like one of the few ones. you can play around the island but it's really hard to get heard. everything comes from the outside. the radio station don'...

>> man in black shirt: we need to change the way we think. we have been taught that we can't do it. >> cristina: we are preconditioned to think that we need the support of the u.s. if we decide to be an independent country you have to go through a process of being on our own and we have never done that. we have to start from scratch we don't have agriculture. we don't have production, anything. >> tito: it can be tough. and i hope that we can fight for ourselves. to inspire people, to give them strength, to resist. obviously music is good for that. ♪ ♪ [ singing in spanish ] ♪

♪ ♪ >> anthony: hello, hi. >> cristina: these are my friends. >> tito: want some beer? >> anthony: yeah, sure. it's so beautiful here. >> tito: salud man. >> anthony: thanks for having me. >> anthony: tito auger is a beloved singer-songwriter. cristina rivera-miró is his fiancée. he lives on the outskirts of vega alta, where he grew up. >> tito: i've been playing for 20 years now. i write very specific songs about my town, my country. i'm not trying to sell any dreams but i tell everybody that we have it inside of us to make it to the other side. >> tito: do you want to come inside and m...