Cuban dissident Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara goes into exile in US
He was arrested in 2021 during Cuba's largest anti-government protests in decades and spent five years in prison.
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"I believe the dictatorship has to end, and the Castro dynasty has to end, as well."
— Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara , Activist
"Otero Alcántara's only 'crime' was refusing to stay silent and using his art to demand the basic freedoms everyday Cubans have been denied for almost seven decades."
— Marco Rubio , Politician
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He was arrested in 2021 during Cuba's largest anti-government protests in decades and spent five years in prison.
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