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Cuban Artist Exiled for Free Speech | US News
Cuban dissident artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcantara, a vocal critic of the Cuban regime and winner of the Rafto Prize for Human Rights, has arrived in the U.S. after serving five years in prison on charges widely seen as politically motivated. Once a leading figure in the San Isidro movement, he was jailed in 2021 for protesting authoritarianism through art. Now in Miami, he vows to continue his fight for Cuban freedom, already launching new projects. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio hailed his arrival, calling him a symbol of the struggle for basic freedoms and urging the release of over…
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