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Cuban dissident artist hospitalized on hunger strike Art and Culture News
Luis Manuel Otero Alcantara, leader of the San Isidro movement, went on a hunger strike to protest the capture of his art.
The most prominent dissident Cuban artist has been hospitalized after a week-long hunger strike to denounce the government for hijacking his art, and health authorities in the Havana capital have said he is in stable condition.
Havana’s public health department said on Sunday that 33-year-old Luis Manuel Otero Alcantara, leader of the San Isidro protest movement (MSI), had been taken to Calixto Garcia University Hospital.
The department said it showed symptoms of “voluntary starvation,” but was stable and was being treated by doctors.