{"id":329052,"date":"2025-09-29T14:04:02","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T18:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=329052"},"modified":"2025-09-29T14:04:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T18:04:02","slug":"i-dont-want-to-leave-here-bad-bunny-and-the-dream-of-defining-ourselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba\/society-cuba\/i-dont-want-to-leave-here-bad-bunny-and-the-dream-of-defining-ourselves\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI Don\u2019t Want to Leave Here\u201d: Bad Bunny and the dream of defining ourselves"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the same Caribbean from which Cuba emerges, in Puerto Rico, Benito Antonio Mart\u00ednez Ocasio (Bad Bunny) was born in 1994. The twelve-time Latin Grammy nominee (2026) released the album <\/span>Deb\u00ed tirar m\u00e1s fotos<\/span><\/i> (I Should Have Taken More Pictures) in January 2025.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The accompanying <\/span>short documentary<\/span><\/a> visually exposes the gentrification of Puerto Rico and the loss of identity caused by the migration of its people, the occupation of the territory by predatory tourism, the climate crisis and housing evictions.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Many residents no longer recognize themselves in these spaces and feel like \u201cforeigners in their own homeland,\u201d where they were born and \u201cwant to die,\u201d as a Puerto Rican is heard saying in the documentary clip <\/span>\u201cAqu\u00ed vive gente\u201d<\/span><\/a> (People live here), the predecessor of <\/span>Deb\u00ed tirar m\u00e1s fotos<\/span><\/i>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Bad Bunny during a performance at the Puerto Rico Coliseum in San Juan. Photo: EFE\/Eric Rojas.\u00a0<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Puerto Rico <\/span>has lost<\/span><\/a> approximately 2.4% of its population between 2020 and 2023, largely due to emigration. This is a considerably lower rate than the <\/span>approximately 24% that Cuba has lost of its resident population<\/span><\/a> in four years due to the mass emigration of its citizens. This exodus reflects the profound economic and social crisis we are experiencing.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Regarding the return to their country of Puerto Ricans who emigrated, recent data from the American Community Survey (ACS) indicates that, between 2018 and 2019, there was a <\/span>net return<\/span><\/a> of approximately 88,000 Puerto Ricans to the island, suggesting a partial recovery of the population after the mass exodus following the destructive Hurricane Maria in 2017.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

However, for many Cubans \u2014 a diasporic group that tends to emigrate permanently when compared to other Latin American diasporas \u2014 the possibility of voluntarily returning to the country is almost immediately ruled out by the daily precariousness and hopelessness of the current social climate.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Under these circumstances, it is difficult to imagine the island as a safe haven or to consider returning as a reasonable decision.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But some do, and some have even decided to stay, trying to struggle for a decent life, to help build a future that many of us have decided not to wait for.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The three-quarters of the Cuban population that still remains in Cuba is one side of the kaleidoscope we hardly ever look at.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

On the other hand, what we know about migrants who voluntarily repatriate in Cuba is merely anecdotal because there are no official figures: some return to open businesses or grow old in their lifelong homes.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

However, we know that under current conditions, the outflow now far exceeds any recorded return, even in times of deportations from the United States.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI Don\u2019t Want to Leave Here\u201d: an anthem to who we are<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI Don\u2019t Want to Leave Here\u201d is an emblematic title for a series of shows by an Afro-Latinx and diasporic pop artist like Bad Bunny. In addition to its box-office success, the \u201cresidency\u201d managed to connect numerous Puerto Ricans in the diaspora with their homeland.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In my view, it launched some disruptive messages into the Latino migrant imagination, which also impacted us as Cubans: 1) the country of origin not only as a space of nostalgia, but as a present and a possibility for the future; 2) migration not as a definitive crossing, but as a circular movement, a coming and going; and 3) the right to remain and build a life in the destination country, in this case the United States \u2014 a right also sustained by a historical debt: for generations, Latin American migrants have sustained key sectors of that country\u2019s economy, culture and daily life, and their contribution deserves recognition and gratitude \u2014 as an inseparable part of that migratory experience.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The static <\/span>tour<\/span><\/i> of Puerto Rico ended up constructing and narrating the country as a mosaic of culture and identities worth exploring. By establishing himself there, Benito transformed the periphery into the center.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Another emblematic fact is that he didn\u2019t include the United States on the list of destinations for his international tour, \u201cDebi tirar m\u00e1s fotos World Tour,\u201d to avoid ICE raids among a significantly Latino audience, reinforcing his commitment to the safety and representation of the migrant community in that country, especially the undocumented.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Audience at Bad Bunny\u2019s concert at the Puerto Rico Coliseum in San Juan. Photo: EFE\/Thais Llorca<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In an interview, he explained: \u201cThere were many reasons why I didn\u2019t perform in the United States, and none of them were out of hate; I\u2019ve performed there many times.\u201d He added: \u201cAll [of the shows] have been magnificent. I\u2019ve enjoyed connecting with Latinos who have been living in the United States. But specifically, for a residency here in Puerto Rico, when we are an unincorporated territory of the United States….\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

He also emphasized his concern for the safety of his audience: \u201cPeople from the United States could come here to see the show. Latinos and Puerto Ricans from the United States could also travel here, or anywhere in the world. But there was the issue that the damn ICE could be outside [my concert]. That\u2019s an issue we talked about and that worried us a lot.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Bad Bunny\u2019s recent work and stance show how even the most popular wave of culture can be a form of living resistance to the narratives that have presented us exclusively as peripheral territories, inferior cultures, or \u201cthird\u201d in the world order. We\u2019re here, and we\u2019re not leaving.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Resisting to subvert<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What we understand by country goes beyond its geographical boundaries: a country is built, lived and imagined.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This is something Bad Bunny has done, beyond getting his audience to dance. His visibility opened space for us to rethink the way we tell who we are and reminded us that, as a Commonwealth of the United States, Puerto Rico is not just a summer resort for gringos, but a place where \u201cpeople still live,\u201d with culture, customs and a life worth preserving and dignifying.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

From my own experience, I know that my generation has disconnected from Cuba with the same anguish that Puerto Rican millennials \u2014 and so many other Latin American diasporas \u2014 have disconnected from theirs. Bad Bunny isn\u2019t Cuban, but for many of us, it\u2019s as if he were, because of everything his activism represents.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

As Cubans, however scattered we may be, I wish we could once again invent our own fictions about what it means to be Cuban in a world saturated with narratives that try to push us aside, to the periphery.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

We are a small island that has never gone unnoticed by the rest of the world. We cannot allow difference of opinions, polarization (a contemporary reinterpretation of radical positions like the one we saw during the rafters\u2019 crisis, which serves us no purpose today) and political apathy to continue to fragment us and distance us from what we essentially are: a whole country. We must recognize the hidden mechanisms that are trying to make us disappear.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\"AME9863.
AME9863. SAN JUAN (PUERTO RICO), 09\/15\/2025.- Photograph provided by Erick Rojas of Puerto Rican artist Bad Bunny during a performance this Sunday at the Puerto Rico Coliseum in San Juan (Puerto Rico). EFE\/Eric Rojas.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Nor can we, as a diaspora, those of us who are part of it, stop looking at the island with respect and reverence for those who have been brave enough to stay and build with their own hands a future that none of us who are outside were able to wait for.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

They deserve our respect, those who struggle daily \u2014 some because they have no other way out \u2014 against blackouts, scarcity, apathy, the indifference of leaders, the lack of food and medicine, and yet they get up every morning to make a living however they can, to live it in the best way possible, because it\u2019s the only way they have.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cPeople who have invested their life savings not in buying a plane ticket and moving to another country, but in starting a business, even in the sea of <\/span>\u200b\u200b<\/span>economic uncertainty that prevails on the island.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Bad Bunny\u2019s \u201cresidency\u201d made me think of something I thought was lost among Cubans, and I\u2019m optimistic enough to believe it\u2019s not entirely lost: the possibility of imagining our homeland not only as the past, but as the future; a place of return, symbolic but also real: of possible embraces, of reunion with our food, our music and our people.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In short, with that part of us that faded while learning to flourish in other lands and hardened with resentment toward hierarchies that have failed to represent us as a people.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I want to believe that we can still build with our own hands the crystalline horizon we sought when some of us left and others stayed. All of us, ultimately, are the Homeland.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But for that horizon to cease to be an illusion, our desire is not enough: we must break the intransigence of everyone; we must ensure that political decisions truly guarantee us the real right to return, to participate, to influence the country\u2019s course. That we be allowed, without hesitation, to think about and help rebuild Cuba, both from without and within. Will it be possible?<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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