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"So everything that ever happened, we knew about in Panama."

Ruben Blades, Panamanian Musician

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"So everything that ever happened, we knew about in Panama."

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"I didn't do drugs, I never did do drugs. Never. I don't have any story of drugs, you know, to speak of. Never did drugs, never was interested in drugs and then I wasn't interested in the people around the drugs."

"There was no television, so the radio provided you with everything."

"It doesn't make sense for me to be a lawyer in a place where there is no law."

"What is interesting in this is the exchange of music that occurred between New Orleans and Cuba, I mean, they had ferries that would go from one port to another."

"Yes, I was going to law school and it was closed in '69."

"I was the first person to come into New York with a Latin American point of view which was also very much influenced by political happenings in Latin America."

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"And, he'd seen me in Panama, and he talked about maybe doing something in New York so I hooked it up when I came here and I recorded in 1969 my first album with Pete Rodriguez."

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"In those days the big U.S. labels didn't have any particular interest in the Latin market."

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"So everything that ever happened, we knew about in Panama."

Ruben Blades, Panamanian Musician

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