A prominent Cuban dissident, Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, will go into exile in the US after completing a five-year prison sentence in Cuba, according to his supporters and a US embassy official.
Background
Otero Alcántara has been granted immigration parole in the US. He will be released by the Cuban government and travel to the US with his family.
He has been a vocal critic of the Cuban government and has used social media to document his campaign against official censorship and the Cuban police and security officials.
Otero Alcántara is also an internationally acclaimed artist, having shared a Grammy win for the song “Patria y Vida” (“Homeland and Life”) that criticized the Cuban government’s failures and repression.
Original reporting: KTVZ (Central Oregon) — read the source article.
