2023-09-18 03:25:07
♫♪ “At the Los Andes rodeo, comadre Lola; They punched Guatón Loyola with her fist” ♫♪. It is a fact: the entire Chilean population has heard, enjoyed and surely danced this popular cueca in each National Holiday celebration, but its history is far from being a cause for celebration.
Who was “Guatón Loyola”?
Eduardo “Guatón” Loyolathe real name of the aforementioned, spoke with “The Llanquihue” of Montt port in the ’60s and explained the origin of the story that gave life to the song by the folklorist duo Los Perlas. According to his words, everything started as a joke by his friend, Alejandro “Flaco” Gálvez, creator of the melody.
The point of origin dates back to a farm in Santiago Urrieta Benavente, in the commune of Parral, Maule Region., place where Loyola together with the aforementioned Gálvez and Mario Cassanello shared the rodeo casino. The subsequent arrival of three huasos in a state of intoxication, whose behavior caused discomfort among the workers at the facility, triggered the brawl.
“Words come, words come, and I challenge you to fight. The police calmed the matter or tried to do so, but as we insisted the officer asked: “Do you want to fight?”, and as we said yes, then he set the rules: “ Nobody gets involved, fight,” he said, and we fight,” said the renowned “Guatón”, who according to the lyrics, “combo that was lost, received it.” Was it so?
“In one of the intersections I fell, and the other guy grabbed a chair and I had to avoid him. Someone tried to take the chair away from him, but it didn’t work. Then, a friend reached back and the person who was fighting with me thought he was going to pull out a gun and got scared. Truly, it was a bunch of keys. Asking for help, he ran to the side of the station and we didn’t hear from him once more,” he concluded in the conversation with the aforementioned media.
The Andes was not the place of the events
As detailed previously, the epicenter of the story was not in the province of Los Andes as mentioned in the song, but in Parral. Where did the idea of mentioning this area come from? The duo Los Perlas gave themselves a little license and changed the cities because “it sounded better.”
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