Americanos

Americans are the Venezuelans
The Colombians, the Peruvians, the Ecuadorians
Americans are the Chileans, the Haitians
Brazilians, Argentinians, Mexicans

Americans are all of us who fight on this land
It's a shame that there are brotherly nations
Acting as if they have forgotten
That Americans are all of us in America

For the many Indigenous people who died here
For the stolen riches of Potosi
For the honor of my oppressed ancestors
We must continue the evolution we lost in the invasion

And with pride that we are Americans
Let's grow and make our land an envied nation
For the honor of your oppressed ancestors
We must continue the evolution we lost in the invasion

Until the desire for power
Is smaller than the desire to be happy
Until universities reach the slums
And the prisons in your country until the weapons of this population
Are the preparation more than the bullets of a rifle
We will always be dependent on those who oppress you and decide for you

Let the Santeros in Havana sing it
Let it sound from Patagonia to Tijuana
Let it be heard from Panama to Guatemala
And let the Latinos in the Big Apple turn up the volume

Let it be translated in the Caribbean and in Brazil
Let it be heard from Montevideo to Santiago and Guayaquil
Let it sound from Santo Domingo to Bogota
From Puerto Rico to Caracas, from Asuncion to La Paz

As long as English is not studied for self-improvement
But to forget Spanish
As long as McDonald's and Coca Cola are more consumed
Than a homemade Arepa with Melon juice
As long as the kids know more about Michael Jackson
Than the hero who with swords made us all independent
We will always be dependent
On a borrowed identity that MTV infected us with

Americans are the Puerto Ricans
The Paraguayans, Uruguayans, and Panamanians
Americans are the Nicaraguans, Hondurans, Costa Ricans, and Dominicans

Americans are all of us who fight on this land
It's a shame that there are brotherly nations
Acting as if they have forgotten
That Americans are all of us in America

Americans are the Salvadorans
Guatemalans, Jamaicans, and Cubans
Americans are not only those from the North of my America
But those who love our America