Óscar Chávez - Salario Mínimo versuri traducere în engleză

Minimum wage

The people of this country
live on the money,
on one side the Salinas1
and on the other the money-lending bank.
 
The people of this country
always lose and never gain,
they believe themselves to be happy
because they grow marijuana.
 
Give the governor the minimum wage
so he can suffer our same pain,
give those politicians the minimum wage
so they can die high as kites2.
 
The people of this country
are consumed with irritation,
corn3 doesn't circulate
but cocaine does.
 
The people of this country
is only filled with children
so they can clean windshields
for a bunch of miscreants.4
 
Give the deputies the minimum wage
so they can die doped up,
give Mr. González5 the minimum wage
so he can understand what it is to be poor.
 
The people of this country
don't need students,
if there's bankers and politicians
and a peddling government.
 
The people of this country
don't need any advice,
it prefers to be govern
by a string of fools.6
 
Give the senators the minimum wage
so they can rot with Herod's Law7
give all of the PRI the minimum wage,
they only know what to do is say 'yes'.
 
The people of this country
is tired of thieves
stealing their jobs
and millions of millions.
 
The people of this country
doesn't need culture
everything is worth shit
or worth a lot.
 
Don't stop handing out minimum wage
for the good of our families,
give the President the minimum wage
so he'll understand how horrible it feels.
 

• 1. refers the Salinas family, mainly Carlos Salinas de Gortari (with the PRI party and president of Mexico between 1988-1994).
• 2. -icos diminuative of 'little', lit. 'little weed smokers'.
• 3. food
• 4. this refers to the poor children on the streets that wash people's windshields for money when the street lights turn red (and sometimes people tell them to beat it or they don't pay them). The numbers have grown over the years even though there's laws that keep minors from doing this (they do it anyway to feed themselves and their families), their ages range anywhere from 6~17+. Here is an image of such an example.
• 5. lit. Mr. Regent, refers to Carlos Hank González, a politician and businessman who sought to run for president but didn't meet the requirement (he was German-Mexican, his father was German and the law requires both parents must be Mexican), he died in 2001.
• 6. lit. 'string of rabbits'.
• 7. based on 'Herod the Great', the quote is 'o te chingas o te jodes' = 'either you're fucked or you're screwed'. The line would therefore be translated as 'so they can rot, they're fucked and screwed'. There's a 1999 satire film based on this called 'La ley de Herodes'.

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