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"'''Puente'''" is a [[Latin pop]], [[merengue music|merengue]] and [[salsa music|salsa]] [[song]] written and produced by [[Guatemala]]n [[Grammy Award]]- and [[Latin Grammy Award]]-winning [[singer-songwriter]] [[Ricardo Arjona]], released as the lead single from his twelfth [[studio album]], ''[[Poquita Ropa]]'' (2010).
==Composition==
[[File:Centro Habana (Cropped).jpg|thumb|left|180px|[[La Habana]] is the main theme in "Puente".]]"Puente" is crafted in eight and a half minutes and is divided in three parts. The first one is a cappella song, sang mainly with a piano. The second part is a ballad with [[Caribbean music|caribbean]] and [[Latin music|Latin sounds]], with some [[Salsa music|salsa]] and [[Cuban music|Cuban influences]].<ref>[http://www.oem.com.mx/elsoldetoluca/notas/n1739751.htm "Le canta al pueblo cubano"] (in Spanish). ''El Sol de Toluca''. Retrieved on 23 March 2012.</ref> The third is a mixture of salsa and [[merengue music|merengue]], with Cuban influences. "Puente" is mainly similar to Arjona's work on ''[[Galería Caribe]]'' (2000).<ref name="birchmeier"/> Mónica Maristain from newspaper ''[[La Nación]]'' compared it with a song released by [[Fito Páez]] in 1999, "Habana".<ref name="habana">Maristain, Mónica (19 July 2010). [http://www.nacion.com/2010-07-29/Entretenimiento/UltimaHora/Entretenimiento2465948.aspx "Ricardo Arjona se pone tropical en su nuevo disco"] (in Spanish). [[La Nación]]. Retrieved on 11 May 2012.</ref>
The central theme explored on "Puente", Arjona commented: "Although many believe is a treshed topic, it isn't for a cuban, be it on the island or Florida. The status of this dispute hasn't changed since 1959 and i've never seen something as disgusting as a rivality between people occasionated from politics. [[Hugo Chávez|Chávez]] can fight with [[Álvaro Uribe|Uribe]], [[Fidel Castro|Fidel]] with [[Barack Obama|Obama]], but what has this to do with two third-generation cousins that inherit an enmity for a politic matter[?]".<ref name="Arjona-Puente">[http://www.elcolombiano.com/BancoConocimiento/A/arjona_canta_ahora_con_poquita_ropa/arjona_canta_ahora_con_poquita_ropa.asp "Arjona canta ahora con poquita ropa"] (in Spanish). ''[[El Colombiano]]''. Retrieved on 23 March 2012.</ref> In the song, Arjona sings: "Habana / siempre en las mitades, tan mitad española, tan mitad africana / saben bien las olas que en cada ventana siempre hay un testigo / Habana."<ref name="habana"/> He also commented that "Puente" was the only song "not allowed to undress".<ref name=unionradio1/><ref name="PUSA">[http://www.elperiodicousa.com/noticia/11730/poquita-ropa-es-el-disco-que-siempre-quiso-hacer-arjona "“Poquita ropa” es el disco que siempre quiso hacer: Arjona"] (in Spanish). El Periódico USA. Retrieved on 11 May 2012.</ref>
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==Music video==
The music video for "Puente" was released on August 17, 2010.<ref name="Producers"/> It was directed by [[Argentinian]] [[film director|director]] Joaquín Cambre, who also worked with Arjona on the music video for "Sin Ti, Sin Mi". In the video, to brothers live separately, one of them in [[La Havana|Havana]], and the other in [[Miami, Florida|Miami]]. The video ends with the boys encountering each other in a bridge, along many other people. The video shows the problematic about the migration on [[Cuba]].<ref name="Unidad">[http://www.elnuevoherald.com/2010/08/21/786789_ricardo-arjona-llama-a-la-unidad.html "Ricardo Arjona llama a la unidad de los cubanos"]. El Nuevo Herald. Retrieved on April 19, 2012.</ref> Arjona shot the video while on his ''[[Quinto Piso Tour]]''.<ref name="Unidad"/> It was filmed between Mexico and Argentina, with the collaboration of children from 5 to 13 age old.<ref>[http://www.nacion.com/2010-08-09/Entretenimiento/NotaPrincipal/v09-GERAR-MUSICA1.aspx "Ricardo Arjona tiende hoy su ''Puente''"]. La Nación. Retrieved on April 19, 2012.</ref>
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