Cuban dissident Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara goes into exile in US

He was arrested in 2021 during Cuba's largest anti-government protests in decades and spent five years ⁠in prison.

Cuban artist and dissident exiled from country after 5 years in prison arrives in US

A famous Cuban dissident artist and musician, Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, arrived in Miami on Saturday after being released from a five-year prison sentence on the condition that he leave his country.

By The Associated Press

Exiled Cuban artist Otero Alcantara has arrived in US, Rubio confirms

Otero Alcantara is part of the San Isidro Movement, which has long been the target of Cuban repression.

Cuban dissident artist Otero Alcantara lands in US exile

Prominent Cuban dissident artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcantara flew to exile on Saturday in the United States after serving a five-year sentence on the island, as Washington urged Havana to release more than 700 political prisoners. Otero Alcantara, designated a prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International, was sentenced to five years in prison in 2022 for insulting national symbols, contempt and disturbing the public order. He landed in Miami, the capital of the Cuban diaspora, after a shor...

By Agence France-Presse

Cuban dissident artist arrives in US after 5 years in prison

Luis Manuel Otero Alcantara, a prominent Cuban artist and dissident, was detained in July 2021 as he attempted to join unprecedented mass protests across the communist island.

Cuban artist and dissident exiled from country after 5 years in prison arrives in US

A famous Cuban dissident artist and musician, Luis Manuel Otero Alcantara, arrived in Miami on Saturday after being released from a five-year prison sentence on the condition that he leave his country. Alcantara, 38, was greeted at the airport by a crowd that was cheering, singing and holding their phones high in the air to get a photo of him. They draped him in a Cuban flag, printed with the words “Patria y Vida” — “Homeland and Life” — the title of a song he shared a Grammy for that became an

By The Korea Herald

Why Cuba is under siege

Cubans have endured decades of mismanagement from their own communist government, along with economic warfare from the US

By The Week UK

Luis Manuel Otero Arrives in Miami in Forced Exile

Visual artist Luis Manuel Otero had been taken by Cuba’s political police to Jose Marti Airport in Havana to send him into forced exile. The post Luis Manuel Otero Arrives in Miami in Forced Exile appeared first on Havana Times.

By Circles Robinson