On the platforms of candidate Nicolás Maduro, a program designed to exhibit that “Chavismo is joy” is followed, a reminder that the so-called “Gallo Pinto” often makes.
Before the arrival of the candidate, singers of different genres presented by entertainers Wiston Vallenilla and Henry Silva pass through the stage. “Call Lucía Valentina and Potrillo,” Omar Acedo, the main musical producer of the talent traveling in the Maduro candidate's entourage, is heard saying.
Then they introduce Gio Fernández, a performer of the ranchera songs (of the new wave) that made Cristian del Nogal and Jessi Uribe famous. Next comes the Trean Factor M, 12 groups that won that pre-campaign contest to select the songs for Maduro's “pilgrimage.” Among these singers, Jhoabealt, FullVida MC (Luis Morales) Osiys (and José Ernesto) stand out; Endless Kamerun (Kamerun and Baloo); Heleidys Urbina and Jenfry Figueroa. That group's show lasts approximately 15 minutes.
Before this group leaves the stage, Acedo goes and looks for Roberto Antonio and hands him a wireless microphone. The so-called King of Tecno-Merengue comes running to the center of the stage to sing his Nights of Fantasy, which on more than one occasion leaves it halfway due to the arrival of the candidate. But on other occasions Omar Acedo himself accompanies him on the topic.
The Dominican Bony Cepeda has also been seen on several stages of the Gallo Pinto campaign. Sometimes Maduro himself presents it as happened at the Coche rally in Caracas or in Ciudad Bolívar. Cepeda, from La Photography, sings and interacts with that phrase “here (in El Vigía, Guanare, Barquisimeto...) it's hot.”
Gio and Gabo (La Melodía Perfecta) also offer their number prior to the candidate's entry; as well as Omar Enrique (El Príncipe del Merengue), Luifer and Emilio (Los Cadillac), Antonio “Potro” Álvarez, Afro Criollo and Omar Acedo; the latter with its more political songs than those that were played on the radio.
The murmur on stage of “it's here, it's here, it's here” is the signal of the candidate of the Great Patriotic Pole entering the stage; normally preceded by the abrupt arrival of the head of the campaign command Jorge Rodríguez. And while Maduro walks through the center of the stage holding the hand of his wife Cilia Flores, the bars of La Esperanza es en La Calle, a song by Omar Enrique that he performs along with Acedo, Xuxo, Los Cadilac, Gio Fernández and Mabel Ribiera. And then Mabel Ribiera is stuck asking everyone to take out El Celular and start recording “because El Gallo Pinto Nicolás has arrived.” The First Combatant performs in this choreography when Mabel mentions her in a stanza exhorting the President to “dance a cilita.”
Once Maduro's intervention has begun, Jorge Rodríguez enters the scene urging the DJ to be up and running with the songs that will accompany the candidate at certain moments. The first of them are the seven songs of a rooster that are heard precisely when Maduro asks his followers if they want a pataruco or a gallo pinto in Miraflores. That is the phrase that tells the DJ that he must let El Gallo Nico play, a party that Alfredo AfroCriollo, Omar Acedo, Yoky, Zabala and Vlade 32 sing live. In the middle of the choreography Maduro gets in with a particular arm movement that They simulate the flapping of a rooster's wings before starting the fight.
The candidate advances with his speech and the time comes to harangue his followers with that of “I tell you singing / I tell you dancing / on July 28 I see Maduro winning.” And right there Xuxo and Potro Álvarez enter with the song We Keep Winning. But the narration of what Maduro plans for 28J continues with a staging of how the president of the CNE would give the results that night, he said that he is accompanied by the Venevisión march.
Drizzling Songs. At some point during his interaction, Maduro narrates what he considers will happen on Sunday, July 29. “And at 5 in the morning when the Diana Carabobo sounds…”, says the candidate for the duo Lloviznando Cantos to appear on stage that sings the Diana Carabobo, the military musical genre that the military usually use when they go out jogging. Vilma Garcés and Wilson Barba, captains of the Bolivarian Militia, make up that duo. “We composed it for the 2012 campaign, the last of Commander Chávez,” commented Barba. “On October 4 we sang it with a track and Chávez came trotting to the stage,” Barba recalled.
Already finishing his presentation, Maduro always remembers his political mentor and calls on those who sang in 2012 Chávez Corazón del Pueblo, the main theme of that campaign. Acedo, Álvarez, Omar Enrique, Los Cadillac, among others.
There is a musical theme whose performers do not appear on stage, which are those of Venezuela, One People with their Viva Venezuela, but they play it when Maduro finishes his speech. And to close everything, the nine members of Mapa enter: Movimiento Alternativo de Participación Artística (Mapa), headed by Omslig De León, son of the world-famous Óscar de León. They say goodbye to the event with their song “Los Guerreros del Psuv”.
