Back in 2013, Cuban dissident artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcatantara, who is now a prisoner of conscience serving a 5-year sentence, pulled off an amazing feat. On May Day of that year, Otero Alcantara joined in on one of the Castro dictatorship's largest propaganda events wearing a huge paper maché mask of Fidel Castro, mocking
In an interview compiled through various sporadic conversations, Cuban dissident artist and prisoner of conscience Luis Manuel Otero Alcantara describes the horrors of life in a communist gulag. Imprisoned since the July 11, 2021 protests in Cuba, Otero Alcantara is dealing with life as a political prisoner in a totalitarian state as best he can.
The morbid fear the communist Castro regime has of dissident artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcantara has not subsided enough for them to release him from the gulag. The dictatorship has ruled that Otero Alcantara must remain imprisoned, where he has been subjected to physical and psychological torture since July 2021. This is how the Castro
Cuban dissident artist and prisoner of conscience Luis Manuel Otero Alcantara is celebrating his 36th birthday today in a Castro gulag. This is the second birthday Otero Alcantara celebrates in a Cuban prison since his arrest during the July 11, 2021 protests on the island. This is socialism in action. Via CiberCuba (my translation): Political
Cuban artist and prisoner of conscience Luis Manuel Otero Alcantara has been imprisoned in a Castro gulag for more than two years now, but his defiance to the communist regime has not wavered. As one of the founders of the San Isidro artist movement born in November 2020 to challenge the Castro dictatorship, Otero Alcantara