* Above, your blogger, and Raul Pachecho, in Mexico City.
From my post at La Plaza, on an interview with Raul Pacheco of Ozomatli during the Vive Latino festival in D.F., about their bold and progressive new song, "Gay Vatos in Love":
Still, the song consistently challenges comfort levels among some listeners, the singer admitted. "I think people get confused, they don't know where we're coming from. Some people ask, especially in the Spanish press, 'Who's gay in the band?' So there's an assumption there."
(When reporters ask about the sexuality of the band's membership, Pacheco says he sometimes responds with a purposely blank, "I don't know.")
"For us it's a bigger issue," Pacheco went on. "We felt that [gay rights] is just another in a long line of underdogs, so I think we connected to it on that level. It was totally natural for us to take that stance."
The full post is here. Thank you for your re-tweets. I am waiting on several comments submitted to at La Plaza to get moderated and published, but the internal system over there is ... slow.
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