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Accompanied by her music-producer husband
Emilio, the singer was presented with the Gold Medal of Merit
for the Arts by Culture Minister Jose Guirao in Madrid's Teatro
Real opera house.
The ceremony was organized especially for Estefan, who could not
attend an event earlier this year where King Felipe presented
medals to several other recipients.
Speaking to reporters afterwards, the multi-Grammy Award winner,
who has had hits in Spanish and English, spoke out on some of
the issues facing Latino people in the United States, including
the policy of separating the children of migrants from their
parents.
"We are frightened about the treatment those children received,"
Estefan told a news conference.
"It's a very difficult moment and I think the whole of the
United States is a bit anxious. It's a difficult time
worldwide."
Estefan said she had finished recording an album to be released
in January:
"We have re-invented some of my tracks so you can consider it a
'Greatest hits' so to speak, but no, because it also has four
new tracks."
(Reporting by Sam Edwards; Editing by Jesús Aguado and Robin
Pomeroy)
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