Resident on “This is Not America”: “The United States has indoctrinated many people to believe that it is America”

  • Ronald Ávila-Claudio – @ronaldavilapr
  • BBC News World

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We are ‘here, hey / We are’ here / Look at me, we are ‘here.

Puerto Rican’s new single Rene Perezbetter known as Residente, asks the world to look at the abuse and suffering in America.

But, above all, This is Not America It shows, according to the artist, how the United States appropriated the name that belongs to an entire region characterized by the diversity of its hundreds of millions of inhabitants.

“From the point of view of the United States, everything that is present in the video, for them that is not America,” he says in an interview with BBC Mundo.

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