Nature 1

I am Latin America.
A people without legs that’s walking all the same. You cannot buy the wind
You cannot buy the sun
You cannot buy the rain
You cannot buy the heat. You cannot buy the clouds
You cannot buy the colours
You cannot buy my happiness
You cannot buy my pains.

Calle 13 (2010): Latinoamérica. In: Entren Los Que Quieran. Sony Music Latin.

Calle 13 is a Puerto Rican rap duo known for the song Atrévete-te-te! ("Dare yourself!"). The band consists of René Pérez Joglar and his half-brother Eduardo José Cabra Martínez. Their songs are often political and critique US policy towards Latin American countries, amongst other things.

Many social and indigenous movements in Latin America have long opposed privatisation and the sale of natural resources. In Bolivia, for example, water rights were sold to the US company Bechtel. Prices rose by 300 percent and people were even banned from collecting rainwater. Resistance against this attempt at water privatisation was successful despite the great repression it was met with.

*Democracy Now (05.10.2006): Bolivian Activist Oscar Olivera on Bechtel’s Privatization of Rainwater and why Evo Morales should Remember the Ongoing Struggle over Water.

2010