Rubén Blades Comments
On Costa Rica's "Great"
Roads
Singer and actor, Rubén
Blades, who also happens
to be Panama's ministro
de Turismo (tourism
minister) praised the
Juan Santamaría (San
José) international
airport, although he
criticized the country's
poor state of the roads.
"Your roads are no good.
What's happening? I
don't know, I don't dare
give an opinion", said
Blades during a press
conference at end of his
trip to Costa Rica.
"I am surprised at your
airport. It is nice,
like what we have in
Tocumen (Panama's
international airport).
I haven't been to
Liberia, so I can't give
an opinion, but I have
been at the Santamaría
in the past and notice
the difference", said
Blades.
Blabes was in Costa Rica
for a performance and
not in the capacity of
tourism minister, but
couldn't resist giving
his opinion about the
hotels operators in
Costa Rica dumping
sewage into the ocean
and the state of the
roads.
Rubén Blades Bellido de
Luna (born July 16,
1948) is a Panamanian
salsa singer,
songwriter, lawyer,
actor, Latin jazz
musician, and
politician, performing
musically most often in
the Afro-Cuban and Latin
jazz genres. As
songwriter, Blades
brought the lyrical
sophistication of
Central American nueva
canción and Cuban nueva
trova as well as
experimental tempos and
political inspired
Nuyorican salsa to his
music, creating thinking
persons' (salsa) dance
music. |
