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In the wake of music being forbidden in Mali by the extremist government and punk activist performers Pussy Riot being sentenced to years in jail for their performance, this week’s Beat Latino pays tribute to musician’s voices that have been silenced to due intolerance and fear. We include music that governments, politicians, dictators and religious powers have censured in the Americas and Spain, from Cuba’s Porno for Ricardo’s punk tunes, to music silenced in past decades, like the voice of Chilean poet-activist Victor Jara and the sung poems of Spanish poets Federico García Lorca and Miguel Hernández who died for their art. As one of the songs says, “the voice is gone, but not the song.”

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