They called Ali Primera “The People’s Singer.” The Venezuelan ambassador of the Nueva Cancion, protest song, movement, which spilled across Latin America in the 1960s and ’70s, and included others like Mercedes Sosa and Victor Jara.

Ali Primera sang in solidarity. He sang for rights and for justice. He sang in defense of the people, the humble and the working class. He sang in solidarity with El Salvador in the 1980s, and Nicaragua. He sang for revolution and for peace. He sang to demand an end to US imperialism. An end to US intervention and aggression throughout Latin America.

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Resources:

• Nicaragua - 1983 - concierto por la paz
• Alí Primera. Abran la Puerta.
• Los Guaraguaos "No Basta Rezar", LIVE, 1974
• ali primera - Canción Bolivariana 
• Alí Primera. Himno Nacional de Venezuela.
• Ali Primera - Entrevista
• Documental "Savia y Fruto" (Alí Primera, Entrevista Completa)
• Chávez sobre alí primera
• Ali Primera Abrebrecha y Yankee go home en vivo
• Alí Primera - Canción Bolivariana (Venezuela) (English Subs)

La Canción Bolivariana, presentada en dos tiempos, dos interpretaciones en vivo de esta obra que el camarada Alí grabó en nuestros corazones y sobre todo en nuestras mentes como un ideograma perpetuo de la lucha bolivariana, que es nuestra lucha pasada, presente y futura.



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