FANB officials publish video rejecting the song “Veneka”

  • Dec, Sun, 2024
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The Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB) published a video on December 5 in which three officials of the institution appear rejecting the song “Veneka”, by the Venezuelan band Rawayana and Akapellah.

«We, Venezuelan women, totally repudiate the song “Veneka” by the Rawayana group, since we are women committed to the country and we are capable of giving our lives if necessary. Because always united, we will win,” said one of the uniformed women.

Nicolás Maduro attacked the Rawayana gang for his song “Veneka”, which premiered on October 20 together with rapper Akapellah.

The official leader criticized the band for using the term, which he considers offensive, to refer to Venezuelan women.

“The women of Venezuela are told dignity, they are told respect and They are called Venezuelans. They are not venekas. Let’s come out in defense of the identity of Venezuelan women, because they try to disfigure our identity. Will the people who made that song know that? Will they know?” he said.

And he added: “The group that made that song so insulting, so contemptuous, so horrible as Veneka didn’t muddy it, they played it.” But he did not mention the name of the Venezuelan band.

With “Veneka”, Rawayana reopened the discussion about whether or not the term is offensive. The song, a changa that exalts the attributes – mostly physical – of Venezuelan women, It has been seen as an effort to redefine the word.

In recent years “veneco” has been used to disqualify Venezuelan migrants in countries such as Colombia, Peru or Chile.

But the positions on the term are opposite. For many people it still remains an offensive term, an insult that represents the negative side of Venezuelanness, generally associated with violence; For others, who have taken on the task of reappropriating the term and using it to respond to those who use it in a derogatory tone, represents the idiosyncrasy of the Venezuelan, beyond the positive and the negative.

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