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Cuban Artist Under House Arrest Begins Hunger and Thirst Strike Cuban Artist Under House Arrest Begins Hunger and Thirst Strike Officials have repeatedly targeted Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara for his work and for speaking out against Cuba's government FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 26, 2021 **PEN America experts are available for interviews in English and Spanish//Los expertos de PEN América están disponibles para entrevistas en inglés y español.** (New York, NY) — Independent Cuban artist and activist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara announced that he would begin a hunger and thirst strike th...

Leidy Laura Hernández is the founder of the first animal refuge in Santa Clara and regularly use Facebook to organize animal rescue operations throughout central Cuba. Her husband, Omar Mena, is a dissident rapper who uses music to criticize the regime, making them both targets. Mena was last arrested on January 29; Cuban dissidents regularly face arbitrary arrests and police detentions, often never being told what crime they allegedly committed. Hernández herself has become a target for using her group to condemn instances of animal abuse by the state. Hernández told the independent outle...

Cuban Culture Minister Filmed Beating Journalist During Protest 28 Jan 2021 A group of Cuban dissidents who had assembled before the Ministry of Culture headquarters in Havana on Wednesday filmed Culture Minister Alpidio Alonso physically assaulting a journalist and stealing his mobile phone. Alonso was among several Communist Party officials who resorted to violence in the face of a small, peaceful crowd assembling in front of the ministry to demand a say in how their government manages the artistic community. The group had also chosen the date as an homage to Cuban founding father and poet...

25 Jan 2021 A coalition of 15 Catholic priests working in Cuba defied the Communist Party and decades of Vatican distance from Cuban politics to publish a letter this weekend urging the Cuban people to “co-involve” themselves in their own liberation from communism and work to “break the chains” of the Castro regime. The letter, published in English by the U.S.-based human rights organization Global Liberty Alliance, states plainly, “Cuba needs political changes.” “We, as believers, consider that it is time, as a people, to return to God,” the priests write. The letter was publ...

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