The Cuban singer Pablo Milanes claimed to have suffered police harassment after his arrival in the Chilean city of Concepcion, located in the south of the country before a concert. The representative of the Nueva Trova Cubana have been revised criticized both at the airport of Santiago and arrival to the southern city of the southern country, where they waited Immigration Department officials of the Investigations Police of Chile. "When people come to sing police forces me to identify myself as if I were a criminal," said amid Milanes concert Friday.
In a broadcast video you can see the singer at the center stage of the municipal gymnasium of Concepcion relating the events that took place and denouncing police harassment. "I do not admit, is unacceptable not only for me but for any citizen," said the musician, who returned to Concepción 18 years after his last visit to tour celebrating 50 years of career. "If I had it coming clandestine, had come with the MIR (Revolutionary Left Movement)," he said, adding told La Cooperativa: "If that do to all artists, sorry for all that support . this is unacceptable here in Chile. If that's a law, if it is a form, you must tear down. "
The singer called on the government to withdraw the law that allows the identity check because, in his opinion, is "absolutely unfair" and "disrespectful to the artists who come to sing to the people."
