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"Are you hearing me, you useless?" . Yes, of course we are hearing you, Paquita: Server and 40 other men, some of them very macho -not so the one who writes this- in your place in Mexico City. Spread around the room, without becoming a majority among an audience, we witness your cataract of insults and denigrations, sometimes with thick tears falling down the virile and bushy mustaches. "Hyena from hell", "damn cockroach", "waste of life", "poisonous snake", "creeping animal" and, above all, "two-legged rat"are some of the qualifications that Paquita lets go of an old lover after disappointment, but that some make their own due, ah, to the sticks that love gives. "I'm talking to you," he sings at one point while pointing to a man who is immediately turned into a squishy, ​​runny mass.

In Mexico, where the murder of women and socialized machismo are a true plague, Paquita la del Barrio has become an unexpected feminist icon. Unexpected yes, in that it has nothing to do with the skeletal young women with operated breasts who champion the discourse of empowerment in current music. Paquita, on the other hand, is a plump lady who wears dresses that look like fantasy draperies, but who does not give up showing her love for enjoyment, instead of resigning herself to being submissive and submissive. "Three times I cheated on you , " she sings to her man in another of her best-known songs: "The first out of courage, the second out of whim, the third out of pleasure." And, in case it had not been clear, ask the question again: "Are you listening to me, useless?"

Paquita has the courage of someone who has gotten up from the ground many times. Born in Alto Lucero (Veracruz) in 1947, Francisca Viveros Barradas has two marriages behind her that did not end well and from which her three children were born. Tired of the deceptions of her first husband, she left her homeland for Mexico City, where she spent time in nightclubs and seedy clubs. There she sang boleros and rancheras with her particular style. Their songs then passed to the workers, who made them their own and sang them in their chores. 'You greet me to yours' - in which the mother of his ex-lover lies after he does the same with Paquita's -, 'Lose my respect', 'Don't threaten me' or 'To the fourth glass' are others of their successes. Thanks to them, she managed to have her own premises, located in the Guerrero neighborhood of Mexico City, which became a place of pilgrimage for broken creatures of various coats.

The writer Juan Villoro describes the atmosphere of a night at Casa Paquita at the beginning of this century: "At four in the afternoon, Paquita's place fills with women alone, runaway housewives who come to do the shopping ( in the wardrobe leaves bags of vegetables ) and sip a soft drink before going to make dinner. A little later, office workers arrive looking for a little option of chaos. For some unfathomable reason, in Mexico it is considered sexy for women to have a curled fringe on the forehead. Such is the hallmark of the secretaries accompanied by bureaucrats in fish-belly colored suits. "

Paquita is of arms to take and is responsible for remembering it from time to time. A couple of years ago, she showed her rejection of homosexual couples being able to adopt children and said that it would be better for them to "starve." Plus, he calls his trans imitators "fagies . " And, recently, she granted an interview to TV Azteca in which she explained that she had returned to her native Veracruz due to fear of Covid-19 and some health ailments. "I was a little sick with my quads and hips," she announced. "What you need is a rearranged one, my Paquita," replied presenter Daniel Bisogno. "Well, let's see when you give it to me, you bastard," she blurted out.

Even so, the singer is preparing a new album that she will publish when the pandemic leaves her, and that will include songs like 'I'm going to kill you a chicken' and 'Problem fixed'.

Waiting for that moment to come, Paquita is entertained in confinement with her new favorite hobby, painting, although for the moment she rules out taking the next step and presenting an exhibition with her Bob Dylan-like works. She does it, she says, for her 'just'. The only thing missing: having to do things to please others. And, even less, men.

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