The song received a worldwide distribution on September 8, 2008, and was recorded on August 8, 2008, with the band that joins Juanes on tour.

This track was written while Juanes was on the Spanish leg of his tour and he refused to wait two years to release it on his next album.

[1] The music video for this single was directed by Agustín Alberdi and shot on a military base near Buenos Aires, Argentina on a twelve-hour session on location in Morón.

On this video, Juanes is shown driving a toy car, travelling through the world collecting flags from different countries.

""Juanes presentó la canción 'Odio por amor', un sencillo extra de su álbum 'La vida es un ratico'(In Spanish)"".