Americanos

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

Americans are all of us who fight on this earth
It's a pity that there are brother peoples
They act as if they have forgotten
That all of us in America are Americans

For the many indigenous people killed here
For the stolen riches of Potosí, yes
For the honor of my oppressed ancestors
We must continue the evolution that we lost in the invasion

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

Until the desire to have power
Be smaller than the desire to be happy
Until universities reach the slums
And to the prisons in your country

Until the weapons of this population
Let preparation be more than the bullets of a rifle
We will always be dependent
Of those beings who oppress you and decide for you

Let the Santeros sing it now in Havana
Let it sound from Patagonia to Tijuana
Let them hear it from Panama to Guatemala
And 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 Bogotá
From Puerto Rico to Caracas, from Asuncion to La Paz

While English is not studied for improvement
But to forget Spanish
While McDonald's and Coca Cola are more consumed
That an arepa with melon juice
While the kids know more about Michael Jackson
That of the hero who made us all independent with sword blows
We will always be dependent
From a borrowed identity that MTV infected us with

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

Americans are all of us who fight in this land
It's a shame that there are brother peoples
They act as if they have forgotten
That all of us in America are Americans

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