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Cuban Artist Freed After 5 Years | Durham News
Cuban dissident artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, freed after a five-year prison sentence, arrived in Miami to roaring cheers, draped in a “Patria y Vida” flag — the anthem he co-created that galvanized the Cuban opposition. Released under exile conditions, he was granted U.S. parole and is now seeking refuge abroad to continue his activism. A co-founder of the San Isidro Movement, he was arrested during a 2021 protest and sentenced for public disorder and disrespecting national symbols — charges widely condemned by human rights groups who called him a political prisoner. His final days in…
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