While we're on the subject of race, here's the original version of a song I heard in Bogota this June. There are lots of versions of it, the most famous being by Wilfrido Vargas.
The song is controversial, for reasons discussed at some length here. But it's also very catchy and versions of it keep cropping up. One by Sonora Dinamita is here, a hip-hop version by Pitbull here, the Vargas version here, and a fragment by Chico Che here.
And here's an interview (in Spanish) in which Ochoa discusses the song he wrote and first performed:
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