Et Tu, Orishas?

I'm a HUGE fan of the rap group Orishas. Their music is an amalgamation of intelligent hip-hop in Spanish (and French) with traditional Cuban rhythms and sounds. Years ago, I worked at a radio station in Miami and was one of the first to play them in the US (after serendipitously hearing their first single "Orishas Llego" during a trip to Paris).

That's why it absolutely kills me to read this post on BabaluBlog regarding their peddling of pro-castro and pro-Chavez propaganda:

Local Venezuelans report here (it's in Spanish) that these Orishas are the stars of a government-paid-for concert in Caracas, and at it they are showing big pictures of Chavez and castro together, with sneering claims that Chavez will win 10,000,000 votes in December's election.

Que lastima, coño... What a shame.