País Portátil Lyrics in English by Rubén Blades, Roberto Delgado & Orquesta

Below, I translated the lyrics of the song País Portátil by Rubén Blades from Spanish to English.
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Se vende un país portátil
A portable country for sale
Con su autoestima en el suelo
With your self-esteem on the ground
Con un enorme complejo
With a huge complex
Que lo hace antinacional
What makes it anti-national
Es un lugar sin memoria
It is a place without memory
Donde ya nada sorprende
Where nothing surprises anymore
Vive el crimen indultado
Live the pardoned crime
O a un charlatán presidente
Or a charlatan president
Se ofrece un país portátil
A portable country is offered
Se alquila un país portátil
A portable country for rent
Se ofrece un país portátil
A portable country is offered
Se vende un país portátil
A portable country for sale
Barato un país portátil
cheap country laptop
Con héroes falsificados
With counterfeit heroes
Ideales hipotecados
Mortgaged ideals
Y total mediocridad
And total mediocrity
Oferta, un país portátil
Offer, a portable country
Domesticado en engaños
Tamed in deceptions
Se garantiza por años
Guaranteed for years
La ausencia de honestidad
The absence of honesty
Se ofrece un país portátil
A portable country is offered
Que castiga al que es honrado
That punishes the one who is honest
Y a un pueblo autocondenado
And to a self-condemned people
Por su irresponsabilidad
For your irresponsibility
Se vende un país portátil
A portable country for sale
Se ofrece en partes o entero
Offered in parts or whole
Con un préstamo extranjero
With a foreign loan
Hacerlo andar es muy fácil
Making it walk is very easy
Se ofrece un país portátil
A portable country is offered
Se empeña un país portátil
A portable country is pledged
Se alquila un país portátil
A portable country for rent
Se vende un país portátil
A portable country for sale
Y si tiene petróleo, más rápido
And if it has oil, faster
Oye, enfrenta la corrupción
Hey, stand up to corruption
Y a su maldad, dondequiera
And to their evil, everywhere
Ponle todo el corazón
put your whole heart into it
Y dale amor a tu bandera
And give love to your flag
Cuando me muera me entierran allí
When I die they bury me there
Allí en la tierra que yo nací
There in the land that I was born
No dejes a la patria sufrir
Don't let the country suffer
Dale tu cariño, ayúdale a vivir
Give him your love, help him live
¿Cómo?
How?
Panamá, todavía se puede, vamos
Panama, it is still possible, let's go
Todos
all
Jo, ajá
Ho, aha
Hay que salirle a paso a los sinvergüenzas
We have to get out of the way of the scoundrels
Que abusan de la patria que no tiene conciencia
They abuse the country that has no conscience
La patria aguarda la historia
The country awaits history
De nuestra colectiva memoria
From our collective memory
No voten por políticos ladrones
Don't vote for thieving politicians
De los que arruinan naciones
Of those who ruin nations
Ve y defiende tu raíz
Go and defend your root
D dale amor al país
D give love to the country
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