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Ruben Blades

"So that when I came from Panama... my family was exiled in 1973 and they went to Miami."

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"So that when I came from Panama... my family was exiled in 1973 and they went to Miami."

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"So that in 1974, when I graduated as a lawyer, I figured I'm not going to be a lawyer under a military regime."
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"We had something to say. Whenever we played, people didn't dance, they listened."
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