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Why has Cuba exploded in the biggest protests in decades on the island? – 12/07/2021 – World – KSU

Why has Cuba exploded in the biggest protests in decades on the island? – 12/07/2021 – World – KSU
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Opinion | Free Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara

May 27, 2021 By Lillian Guerra Professor Guerra is a historian who specializes in Cuban and Caribbean history. The Cuban performance artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara’s home in San Isidro, one of Old Havana’s poor and majority-Black barrios, lies steps away from Cuba’s National Archive and the childhood home of José Martí, Cuba’s exalted 19th-century hero and fighter for racial justice. The promises of history and the grinding realities of life after 62 years of Communist rule collide in San Isidro. Mr. Otero Alcántara is a founder of the San Isidro Movement, a group of writers, artists and intellectuals who are openly challenging the state’s claims that the Castro-led revolution eliminated racism and that Cuba’s particular brand of socialism has served the poor more than the state. Like others before him, Mr. Otero Alcántara has paid dearly for his activism. Since 2017, Cuban state security has arrested the artist dozens of times, ke

Cuba s Doomed War on Independent Art

There were seven police officers, all dressed as civilians. They arrived at the improvised Havana music studio on the morning of Monday, September 28th, kicked down the door and found their target Maykel Castillo Pérez, a well-known Cuban rapper and human rights activist who was in the process of recording a new song. They beat Castillo (better known as El Osorbo), dragged him out of the house, and took him to the Castillo de la Estación de Policía a colonial-era fortress that serves as the National Revolutionary Police headquarters. There, Osorbo was incarcerated in a tiny cell without being informed of the charges against him or given access to legal counsel.

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