![]() 1 on the Billboard charts - Bay Area guitarist Carlos Santana did for Rock en Español what Montezuma did for the Aztec empire: defined it. The birth of "Rock en Español." Rearranging Latin jazz maestro Tito Puente's salsa standard for the band's 1970 sophomore album, Abraxas - six weeks at No. If one takes the unquestionably imperialistic view of Rhino Records' ☊y Califas! Raza Rock of the '70s & '80s, then Santana's classic rock radio staple "Oye Como Va" is the shot heard round the world. Musically, that first shot is harder to pinpoint. "The disappeared." Zack de la Rocha, lead singer of Rage Against the Machine, rants about injustice with good reason. ![]() From Mexico to Brazil, mothers, fathers, sons, and daughters are still being dragged out of their beds in the dead of night by government death squads, or worse, rebel factions, and never seen again. Beginning the moment Spanish soldiers started killing the indigenous peoples of North and South America, la revolución has not ceased for one single day. In Latin America, take your pick - slit throat, perhaps. ![]() The crack of a pistol, retort from a rifle.
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