A prominent Cuban dissident, Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, will go into exile in the US after completing a five-year prison sentence in the communist-run Caribbean nation. He has been granted immigration parole in the US, according to his supporters and a US embassy official.
Background
Otero Alcántara 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. His protests and hunger strikes were a source of frustration to officials and led to multiple detentions.
As an internationally acclaimed artist, Otero Alcántara shared a Grammy win for the song “Patria y Vida” (“Homeland and Life”) that blasted the Cuban government’s failures and repression. He will be released by the Cuban government and travel to the US with his family, a US embassy official told CNN.
Original reporting: KEYT (Ventura/Santa Barbara) — read the source article.
