A group of Miami-based Cuban musicians including reggae duo Gente de Zona launched an impassioned pro-rights/ anti-Communist anthem this week that has gone viral, sparking a furious state response.

Two rappers in Cuba, Maykel Osorbo and El Funky, also participated in the song, are part of a dissident artists’ collective that sparked an unusual protest against repression outside the culture ministry last November.

“Homeland and Life” repurposes the old slogan “Patria o Muerte” (“Homeland or Death”) emblazoned on walls across the Caribbean country ever since Fidel Castro’s 1959 leftist revolution and expresses frustration with being required to make sacrifices in the name of ideology for 62 years.

The lyrics refer to lack of human rights, ideological intolerance, the partial dollarization of the economy, food shortages, and the exodus of young Cubans who see no future on the island. The government blames its economic woes largely on crippling U.S. sanctions.