Dominican women filmed singing Spain's Falangist anthem

An account shares a video in which several Dominican women sing Cara al Sol and declines to comment: "I'm not saying anything, you decide." Cara al Sol is the anthem of Falange Española, a party founded in 1933.

The scene is simple, and that is precisely what makes it uncomfortable. A group of Dominican women sing Cara al Sol, the anthem of Falange Española, and an account posts it with a line that refuses to interpret it: "I'm not saying anything, you decide." The clip offers no location or date, and that gap does all the work.

## What Cara al Sol is and why it carries weight

Cara al Sol is the anthem of Falange Española, the party founded by **José Antonio Primo de Rivera** in **1933**. Its lyrics were written that same year, with music by Juan Tellería and lyrics partly attributed to Primo de Rivera himself. During the dictatorship of **Francisco Franco** it served as an official anthem alongside the Marcha Real, and was sung with the arm raised.

Since the Historical Memory Law of **2007** (a Spanish law on the legacy of the Civil War and dictatorship), its use at official events has been considered out of place, but it has not disappeared from public space. It still sounds at far-right rallies, at tributes to the Blue Division and, now and then, at football celebrations.

## The gesture of posting it without comment

The account that shares the video asserts nothing. It does not say whether it is a provocation, a joke or an endorsement. That calculated ambiguity is the message: whoever watches it completes the missing sentence. The video thus works as a mirror, and each viewer sees what they already thought.

There is one detail that should not be overlooked. The protagonists are **Dominican** women, a migrant community with a well-established presence in Spain. The gesture places them in an awkward position: they are neither Spanish by origin nor do they fit the narrative that ties the Falangist anthem to a closed national past. The scene breaks the expected script.

## What the video does not say

There is no verifiable context. It is not known whether the women know the anthem's historical weight, whether they learned it at an event, whether they sing it in defiance or out of ignorance. Nor is there any evidence that the video is recent or that it was recorded in Spain. The account that posts it offers no clarification, and that lack of data is part of the story.

Cara al Sol has lyrics, authorship and a date. What it does not have is a single meaning when sung by someone who does not fit the mould. That is where the noise lies.