Pablo Milanés, the poet of the revolution that broke with Fidel Castro, Raúl and their successors

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"The glory days we let them go."

, to which he said goodbye in June with an unforgettable concert and an emblematic song today, "Días de gloria", which summed up the days "that flew away and I didn't realize account. I live with ghosts that feed dreams and false promises".

Whoever was the great banner of the Cuban revolution, along with

acknowledged his disappointment in 1992. That Cuba of the Special Period, "when I was convinced that the Cuban system had definitely failed," was nothing like the many times sung with his powerful voice and the melody of his poems.

The Bayamés singer died without seeing his dream come true, shared with millions of compatriots.

That dream in which he transformed the verses of one of his hymns,

: from the bloody streets of Santiago (from Chile) to the liberated streets of Santiago (from Cuba) and the entire island .

The only song that came out in 10 minutes, as he confessed in his concerts, and the one that gave so many turns with the delirium of the revolution.

Because Pablo Milanés above all, as he insisted in another of his great songs, loved "this island, I'm from the Caribbean."

A love that led him to

, whom he has reproached until the end of his days.

The revolution has always pampered its heroes, it has rewarded them with gifts and advantages so that they do not detach themselves from the official discourse, even encouraging small criticisms to "reform" and "improve" the communist structure.

Pablo Milanés, in 2019 in Madrid. Ángel Navarrete

"Freedom will come and it will not be with shots or bombs (like the Castro revolution), but with flowers," he stressed months ago, convinced that last year's 9/11 popular rebellion is already unstoppable.

"It is irresponsible and absurd to blame and repress a people that has sacrificed and given everything for decades to support a regime that in the end what it does is imprison them," he warned a year and a half ago.

The disappointment of Milanés, who influenced part of his best friends so much, such as

, with whom he sang so many times, also on the island.

Just a few days ago, the Spanish singer-songwriter confessed to EL MUNDO the "fierce failure" of communism and acknowledged that he was next to "those who demonstrate and exile themselves from the island."

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Despite the

carried out by sympathizers of the regime in the days of his agony, the ruling party has quickly come to fire the gigantic troubadour.

"Pain comes with the news. One of our great musicians physically disappears. An inseparable voice from the soundtrack of our generation," Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel wrote on his networks from Moscow, where he is on an international tour.

The one chosen by Raúl is not lying about something: the songs of Pablo and Silvio have accompanied several generations of Cubans, Latin Americans and Spaniards.

"

and who made several generations fall in love", as the singer-songwriter Carlos Varela has recalled.

Without his songs it is impossible to understand part of the seduction displayed by a revolution that lost its romanticism to become the dictatorship of its leaders and the Communist Party.

The decadence itself is aired today with the organic intellectuals who accompany the revolutionary leaders.

Nothing remains today of

, Jean Paul Sartre, Manuel Vázquez Montalbán or Julio Cortázar, replaced by a Spanish

with an unknown name, who is dedicated to insulting all those who criticize her friends from Havana.

Along with his light, displayed so many times, Milanés incorporated with the passage of time the pain for what he saw and felt in his country.

"Where are the friends I had yesterday? What happened to them? What happened? Where did they go? How sad I am", I sing in "Exodus".

"I would not dare to ask him for more than what he gave, because it was too much. I will always admire and be grateful for that last gesture of his, when he bravely admitted that the cause for which many of his verses cried had failed," he tells EL MUNDO the writer Camilo Venegas, who from exile in Santo Domingo also has the same dream: "I will once again step on the streets of what Havana was and, in a beautiful liberated square, I will put Pablo to cry for the absent."

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