They’re not going to use the same spy to serve breakfast and make your bed,” Martinez Maecha said. He said the hotel worker singled out by Juanes later explained that he went to a concert rehearsal Saturday because he had to work at the hotel Sunday and wouldn’t be able to attend the event. This isn’t Disney World, but that’s why we went there.” “Putting on a concert in Cuba is difficult. Juanes’ manager Fernan Martinez Maecha, who accompanied him to Havana, told The Associated Press on Friday that the singer did have pre-concert jitters, and blamed the hotel confrontation on mutual mistrust. “Juanes apologized not only to the young man, but to all the workers who witnessed the momentary mess,” Granma wrote. An article in Friday’s state-run Granma newspaper says the pop star was “clearly nervous” in the hours before the concert and was confused about a hotel employee’s identity. Juanes received death threats before the concert, though opposition to the concert was far from universal in the Cuban-American exile community. The videotaped exchange was an embarrassment for Cuba, which had hailed the performance as a rejection of the isolationism preached by some in South Florida. “We are here for the youth of Cuba … for the future of Cuba.” At one point, Juanes and Spanish performer Miguel Bose threaten to cancel the much-anticipated show, while Puerto Rican star Olga Tanon tries to persuade the men to perform. “We are very upset, very upset,” Juanes yells. “I just realized a little while ago that since yesterday, the guy who’s bringing me breakfast, the guy who is accompanying me, then I see him in the concert, and now I see him sending messages,” Juanes shouts in the video, which was recorded by journalists accompanying him. In a confrontation with what appeared to be a member of Cuban state security at Havana’s Hotel Nacional hours before Sunday’s show, the singer complains of being followed and mistreated, and threatens to cancel the event if authorities restrict access to the concert site.
The angry complaint by the Grammy-winning Juanes and other singers-among them Olga Tañón and Miguel Bosé-has been a hit on YouTube and Spanish-language television, and has been held up by some Cuban exiles in South Florida as evidence of the communist-run island’s repressive ways. An outburst against the Cuba authorities that led Juanes to cancel last weekend’s historic concert in Havana just hours before the show is being blamed by Cuba’s official press on a fit of pre-concert nerves.
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