This is why they do not have any good one there anymore. A visit in Cuba was extended to a two years' stay. La Macorina with lyrics by Alfonso Camin is about the only song for which Chavela also wrote the music. It is a bolero, a Cuban bastard of the Habanera with a sensitive, erotic character which also was the anthem of all forbidden loves and , most of all, the anthem of the guerrilla fighters of Salvador. Guerrilla there, indifference here, religion there, wars, terror.
Peace is ignored everywhere in the world.
Recently, she wanted to go to Cuba again because a young poet's last wish had been that Chavela would sing at his grave. Chavela was not admitted and thus they played her records at the Velorio by the beach. During interviews, Chavela is very careful with names today, if questioned for her famous friends, even presidents. She is, however, speaking about friends of old such as Pablo Neruda, Garcia Marquez or Augustin Lara, the Mexican composer. In 1961, she did her first record and retreated to Cuernavaca in 1979, all alone with her lady parrot Vicenta Vargas of which she later said, an analyst in Lisbon had found out that Vicente had had the fixation of being Chavela's mother.