Many of his songs, performed with his band
los de Palacagüina, became associated with the
Sandinista movement as songs of the workers and revolutionaries. He even composed a
Mass for the working class, the
Misa Campesina Nicaragüense. Many of his songs during the late 1970s gave instructions on how to use, assemble, and disassemble the rifles people were capturing from dictator Somoza's National Guard during street battles. One of his biggest achievements of his career as a songwriter came in 1977 when the song
Quincho Barrilete (Quincho, the boy of the little barrel), composed by himself and performed by Eduardo Gonzalez won the
sixth edition of the
OTI Festival. A victory which is still remembered by many Nicaraguans. In 1980, Carlos Mejía Godoy y los de Palancagüina were internally selected by Televicentro Nicaragua to represent their country in the
OTI Festival in 1980 with their song
La chavalita de España (The little girl from Spain). This song marked the return of
Nicaragua to the event after two years of absence because of the turbulent
Nicaraguan Revolution. Their competing song, which although was one of the favorites, ended in a respectable but disappointing tenth place with 15 points. He was the vice-presidential running mate of
Edmundo Jarquín of the
Sandinista Renovation Movement (MRS) in the November 2006
presidential election. They came in fourth place. In February 2021, Mejía Godoy condemned a proposed law that would declare the songs of the
Nicaraguan National Guard, as Heritage of the Nation, considering it confiscatory of his work. == Awards and Accolades ==