Luis Enrique Mejía Godoy: “Other young people were shooting bullets, I was composing songs”

2023-05-27 00:55:18
It must be incredibly sad to have to be exiled twice from your country for political reasons. Even more so if the first is due to the persecution of a dictatorial regime, and the second to the excesses of the revolution that you supported to overthrow it. That is what the Mejía Godoy brothers have had to experience, authors of the soundtrack of the Sandinista struggle back in the convulsive seventies. At that time they had moved to Costa Rica, from where they published songs like ‘La tumba del guerrilla’ or ‘Himno a la Unidad Sandinista’ to support the armed insurrection against Somoza. When it triumphed in 1979, they returned to Nicaragua to hold important positions in the Ministry of Culture and the… See More
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