“Ojalá pase algo que te borre de pronto”, dice una de las estrofas de “Ojalá«, la emblemática canción del cantautor y poeta cubano Silvio Rodríguez. Durante años, el tema suscitó diversas interpretaciones, impulsadas por el arpegio agudo que envuelve la melancolía de su letra y lo consolida como uno de los principales himnos del músico. Por la intensidad de sus versos, la composición fue analizada bajo la lupa del amor, el desamor e incluso el contenido político. Silvio Rodríguez reveló el verdadero origen de la canción.

“‘Ojalá’ yo la compuse dedicada a una mujer de nombre Emilia Sánchez, que podríamos decir, fue mi primer amor. Fue un amor que tuve cuando estuve en el ejército, mientras hacía mi servicio militar. La conocí cuando tenía 18 años, fue mi primer amor importante en el sentido de que fue el primer amor que me enseñó cosas”, reveló en el libro de Silvio Para Letra y Orquesta, de Sandra Zapata.

La canción se editó en 1978 dentro del álbum Al final de este viaje. Una versión anterior, grabada por el propio cantautor cubano antes de esa fecha, apareció en el recopilatorio Cuando digo futuro de 1977. La pieza se consolidó como una de las más reconocidas de su carrera y forma parte constante de sus recitales.

“Era una muchacha mucho más evolucionada que yo, mucho más inteligente, más culta. Me enseñó, por ejemplo, a César Vallejo. Después nos tuvimos que separar, estaba estudiando medicina y en fin, no le cuadró. No sé por qué estudió medicina, cosa loca de ella, en realidad siempre fue de letras. Después estudió letras, se fue a su pueblo Camagüey, a estudiar eso y yo me quedé solo aquí en La Habana, totalmente desolado”, narró el músico.

Con el paso de los años, “el recuerdo de aquel amor tan bonito, tan productivo, tan útil (ojo, no confundir con utilitario), enriquecedor, de aporte a uno… pues, estaba obsesionado yo con esa idea. Y porque fue un amor frustrado, tronchado por las circunstancias, por la vida, no fue una cosa que se agotara, pues se me quedó un poco como un fantasma y por eso compuse esta canción en un momento quizás de delirio, de arrebato, de sentimiento un poco desmesurado: ojalá esto, ojalá lo otro”, sostuvo Rodríguez.

Aunque su origen fue personal, ‘Ojalá’ se consolidó como un himno que los oyentes reinterpretan de múltiples formas. Esta canción se mantiene entre las piezas más emblemáticas de la trova cubana y atravesó generaciones. El tema evidenció cómo la música se enlaza con emociones universales al margen del contexto en que fue creada.

En más de una oportunidad, la canción fue interpretada como un mensaje dirigido contra el régimen de Fidel Castro, pero Silvio Rodríguez negó esta versión. Según declaraciones citadas por el medio español, El Plural, el cantautor afirmó: “Mucha gente interpretó que era una canción contra Fidel. Esa gente no escuchaba bien la letra de la canción porque cualquiera que la escuche se da cuenta de que está dedicada a una mujer”.

‘Ojalá’ no solo se consolidó como un himno de la música cubana, sino también como un emblema del género a nivel internacional. Ya sea por sus interpretaciones políticas o su apreciación amorosa, el tema transmite y genera emociones a quien sabe apreciar su letra y melodía.

Silvio Rodríguez llegará a Argentina en octubre. Tras siete años desde su última presentación, el músico vuelve a suelo argento con el fin de hacer un repaso por su repertorio. El cantautor tocará en el Movistar Arena el 11 y 12 de octubre. Con fechas agotadas, el músico lanzó una nueva función para el 21 de octubre. Las entradas se encuentran a la venta en el sitio web oficial del Movistar Arena.

Ojalá que las hojas no te toquen el cuerpo cuando caigan

Para que no las puedas convertir en cristal

Ojalá que la lluvia deje de ser milagro que baja por tu cuerpo

Ojalá que la Luna pueda salir sin ti

Ojalá que la tierra no te bese los pasos

Ojalá se te acabe la mirada constante

La palabra precisa, la sonrisa perfecta

Ojalá pase algo que te borre de pronto

Una luz cegadora, un disparo de nieve

Ojalá, por lo menos, que me lleve la muerte

Para no verte tanto, para no verte siempre

En todos los segundos, en todas las visiones

Ojalá que no pueda tocarte ni en canciones

Ojalá que la aurora no dé gritos que caigan en mi espalda

Ojalá que tu nombre se le olvide a esa voz

Ojalá las paredes no retengan tu ruido de camino cansado

Ojalá que el deseo se vaya tras de ti

A tu viejo gobierno de difuntos y flores

Ojalá se te acabe la mirada constante

La palabra precisa, la sonrisa perfecta

Ojalá pase algo que te borre de pronto

Una luz cegadora, un disparo de nieve

Ojalá, por lo menos, que me lleve la muerte

Para no verte tanto, para no verte siempre

En todos los segundos, en todas las visiones

Ojalá que no pueda tocarte ni en canciones

Ojalá pase algo que te borre de pronto

Una luz cegadora, un disparo de nieve

Ojalá, por lo menos, que me lleve la muerte

Para no verte tanto, para no verte siempre

En todos los segundos, en todas las visiones

Ojalá que no pueda tocarte ni en canciones

Former Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan announced he is leaving the GOP and joining the Democratic Party, a move he says has been a long time coming as he has bucked heads with the Republican Party.

Duncan, who served as lieutenant governor as a Republican from 2019 until 2023, wrote in an op-ed in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Tuesday that his path to becoming a Democrat began before President Donald Trump attempted to overturn his loss to former President Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election, which Duncan criticized at the time.

«My journey to becoming a Democrat started well before Donald Trump tried to steal the 2020 election in Georgia,» Duncan wrote in the newspaper.

«There’s no date on a calendar or line in the sand that points to the exact moment in time my political heart changed, but it has,» he continued. «My decision was centered around my daily struggle to love my neighbor, as a Republican.»

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Duncan pointed to several policy issues that played a part in his decision to change parties, criticizing Republicans for their handling of issues such as health care, Medicaid, gun safety, immigration and how to help poor people.

He said his time in office taught him the best way to «love my neighbor» is through public policy. Before his time as lieutenant governor, he served in the Georgia House from 2013 until 2017. He opted not to run for re-election as lieutenant governor in 2022. 

The former Republican said GOP lawmakers have argued for decades that the solution to not having health insurance is to have a job, but noted that most uninsured people in the Peach State live in working households yet do not have insurance because of affordability or eligibility. 

«So, the reality is they have a job, just the wrong job,» Duncan wrote. «One that doesn’t offer health insurance or generate enough spare money each month to afford their own health insurance plan.»

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Duncan served as lieutenant governor as a Republican from 2019 until 2023. (Getty Images)

Duncan also said the Trump-backed spending bill that was signed into law last month will leave Medicaid funding «in shambles,» as it cuts hundreds of billions of dollars from the government program. He also criticized the measure for its cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, more commonly known as food stamps, and its impact on ensuring children do not go hungry at school.

Duncan pointed to polls showing support for gun control measures such as universal background checks and red-flag laws.

He also criticized the Trump administration’s mass deportation immigration policies that he said «have turned into a lesson on how not to love your neighbor.» He said that immigration policy should focus on securing the border, deporting those in the country illegally who have committed felonies, but that a path to citizenship should be created for other migrants in the U.S. 

Duncan’s party switch comes after the Georgia Republican Party expelled him from the party earlier this year over alleged disloyalty. The party’s resolution cited his endorsement of Biden in the 2024 presidential election and, once he dropped out, his endorsement of former Vice President Kamala Harris, as well as alleged efforts to undermine and sabotage some Republican candidates, including current Lt. Gov. Burt Jones and failed 2022 Senate candidate Herschel Walker. 

The former Republican also spoke at the Democratic National Convention in August in support of Harris.

The Georgia Republican Party expelled Duncan from the party earlier this year over alleged disloyalty. (Ben Hendren/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

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Duncan has been a fierce critic of Trump and the Republican Party in recent years, particularly since the president’s efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss and the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.

«The list of reasons why I’m now a Democrat continues to grow,» Duncan wrote. «Most importantly, my decision puts me in the best possible position each day to love my neighbor.»

A Senate Republican renewed his push to federalize Washington, D.C., following an attack on a former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staffer and President Donald Trump’s threat to put the District under federal control.

Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, has long called for control of Washington to fall under Congress, going so far as to introduce the Bringing Oversight to Washington and Safety to Every Resident (BOWSER) Act, named after D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, in an effort to combat crime in the District.

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The bill, which Lee introduced alongside Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tenn., has not made it out of committee since being dropped in February. But Trump’s highlight of an attack against former DOGE staffer Edward Coristine, also known as «Big Balls,» has resurrected the discussion.

«The Constitution already federalizes D.C.,» Lee said on X. «We just need Congress to do its job — and reassert its lawmaking power over our nation’s capital city. My bill, the BOWSER Act, would do that.»

Fox News Digital reached out to Lee for further comment.

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Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah., arrives for the Senate Republicans leadership election in the Capitol on Nov. 13, 2024. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Lee’s bill would effectively repeal the District of Columbia Home Rule Act, a law passed in the 1970s that established a city council and mayor and reduced the amount of oversight that Congress has over the city and its affairs.

But calls have grown by lawmakers over the years to increase Congress’ oversight of the city, largely centered on concerns over increased crime and criticisms of attempts to rewrite the District’s criminal code.

And Trump jumped into the discourse, too, threatening that if «D.C. doesn’t get its act together, and quickly, we will have no choice but to take Federal control of the City.»

«Perhaps it should have been done a long time ago, then this incredible young man, and so many others, would not have had to go through the horrors of Violent Crime,» Trump said on his social media platform, Truth Social. «If this continues, I am going to exert my powers, and FEDERALIZE this City.»

Fox News reached out to Bowser’s office for comment but did not immediately hear back.

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DC Mayor Muriel Bowser speaks at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington on March 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Zack Smith, a senior legal fellow at The Heritage Foundation and a former prosecutor, told Fox News Digital that in the past, the D.C. council has pushed «policies that have made it much more difficult for law enforcement, for prosecutors, to do their jobs and keep citizens safe.»

Bowser and the D.C. Council have, for several years, worked to update the District’s criminal code. However, changes to the code that would have severely lowered sentencing for a variety of crimes that were at first vetoed by Bowser were on the precipice of becoming law before Congress and former President Joe Biden overrode the reforms.

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Smith noted that Congress still has the authority to legislate the District, meaning that lawmakers and the federal government are «still the backstop,» and that both Trump and Lee were right to call for a «reevaluation of the District’s status.»

«That’s why Congress was able to step in and overturn that proposed radical rewrite of the Criminal Code,» he said. «And so what the BOWSER Act would actually do, if it repeals home rule, it would essentially change the way the local D.C. government functions. It might involve Congress and the Federal Government taking a more direct role.»

«I think there is broad and in some ways bipartisan consensus that the current system in D.C. is not working as it should,» he continued.