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
Three years ago on November 27, 2020, a group of young artists and intellectuals from the San Isidro Movement publicly challenged the Castro dictatorship's Ministry of Culture. They demanded the right to freely express themselves without State interference, something unheard of in communist Cuba. The Castro regime attempted to placate them with the intention of
From our Bureau of Wishful Thinking From Exiled Artists From Socialist Latrine American Totalitarian Hellholes Now, let's use our imaginations, kids! Think of things you would like to see some day but seem impossible right now. How about toppling a tyrant's statue? Yeah, cool, teacher, let's see that.! Okay, kids, here you go, look at
November 18 marked three years since the members of the dissident artist movement San Isidro began their hunger strike in Havana and were quashed by the Castro dictatorship. The San Isidro Movement sparked the song "Patria y Vida," which led to mass protests across the island on July 11, 2021 and the subsequent brutal crackdown