Tags: what is decimas
06/25/08

Here's what an Obama-McCain debate might sound like if they they were both Cuban, guitar-playing, Guajiros:
For the Spanish-challenged, there's an age difference between the two singers.
Las Decimas is the Latin American version African-American insulting or "cutting" or "dissing" game, "The Dozens." In the Cuban, Latin American version, two men (always, I think) take turns insulting each other to musical accompaniment.
Similar to a Guirado family reunion, these Panamanian gentlemen insult each other to the delight of disinterested onlookers (In the Guirado version, those would be our neighbors, and, later, the local authorities.)
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