Los Reyes De La Plena's lyrics & chords

Due to Puerto Rico’s condition as a colony of the U.S. resulting from exploitation, social turbulence on the island during the 1910s and ‘20s anticipated, by decades, similar years of misery provoked by the Great Depression in other parts of the world. Unemployment and poverty in agricultural areas forced rural laborers to establish settlements in the swamps and mangroves of San Juan, the city capital. Migration from affected sugar cane areas favored the rapid dissemination of plena, thus securing its place in barrios like La Perla, and amo...read more