Reception
Larry Flick from Vibe applauded the song, as well as "Oye", by stating that both tracks "have a ferocius new energy and a vocal spark that Estefan hasn't previously displayed." Chuck Eddy from Entertainment Weekly named the song as "ominously undulating", adding that it "reach for the skies like a missile-crisis fiesta thrown by Donna Summer."
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“To the United States the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnant in a moment of passion and who shows up one day in the reception room on the forty-ninth floor threatening to make a scene. The lawyers pay the woman off; sometimes uniformed guards accompany her to the elevators.”
—Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)
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