The seditious invasion from the southern border!
Like many cities all over the country, Washington experienced an immigration protest on Saturday at Lafayette Park.
The music in the video above is not a Latino beat one would hear in a Spanish-speaking resort area. In fact, the beats are pretty militaristic. The melody and lyrics drift off to the usual socialist labor chants (in Spanish). The use of the word "patria" (meaning "fatherland") as opposed to "pais" (meaning "country") in the song, for example, shows how nationalistic this kind of singing was. Below is a rough translation of phrases from the video:
"The people united will never be defeated.
"From north to south it will be mobilized.
"The mother country is forging the unity.
"From north to south it will mobilize.
"It will be. It will be a hot spring in the forest.
"United in the struggle, it will open the country. It will open the country.
"It will cover its path to herald its future. It will cover its path to herald its future."
This song is hardly surprising, as it was May Day, when comrades come out in all languages, races and creeds all over the world, but the beat and the chants were the same.
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