In connection with the Fifth Amendment, I mentioned the period when Argentina was ruled by a military junta.
The singer Mercedes Sosa came to my attention since she just passed away.
Her favorite idea was:
Dictators come, dictators go. We in the United States pray that the Fifth Amendment not go away.
Mercedes Sosa, known as La Negra, (July 9, 1935 — October 4, 2009) was an Argentine singer who was and remains immensely popular throughout Latin America and internationally. With her roots in Argentine folk music, Sosa became one of the preeminent exponents of nueva canción. She gave voice to songs written by both Brazilians and Cubans. She was best known as the "voice of the voiceless ones."
After the military junta of Jorge Videla came to power in 1976, the atmosphere in Argentina grew increasingly oppressive. At a concert in La Plata, Argentina, in 1979, the late Mercedes Sosa was searched and arrested on stage, along with the attending crowd. Their release came about through international intervention. Banned in her own country, she moved to Paris and then to Madrid.
From Wikipedia, "Mercedes Sosa", accessed October 7, 2009.
"The climate changes over the years. The pastor changes his flock. And just as everything, everything changes, it's not strange that I have changed."
Cambia el clima con los años. Cambia el pastor su rebaño. Y así como todo cambia. Que yo cambié no es extraño.
Cambia, todo cambia.
Change, everything changes.
