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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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He was arrested in 2021 during Cuba's largest anti-government protests in decades and spent five years in prison. One of Cuba's most prominent dissidents has gone into exile in the US, after leaving Cuba where he had served a five-year prison sentence. Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, 38, is the leader of the San Isidro Movement (SIM), a group of artists, journalists and intellectuals who have campaigned for freedom of speech and democracy in the communist country. He was arrested in 2021 during Cuba's largest anti-government protests in decades and spent five years ⁠in the maximum-security Guanajay prison near Havana. Emerging from the airport in Miami, the 38-year-old was greeted by supporters who sang the Cuban national anthem as he held up his forefinger and thumb in the shape of the letter L to represent '"Libertad", meaning freedom, a recognised anti-government symbol. "Because as long as there is a Castro in power, there will be corruption." Cuban authorities allege the SIM is funded by Washington and has been used to subvert the state, claims the movement denies.

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From the storyHe was arrested in 2021 during Cuba's largest anti-government protests in decades and spent five years in prison.

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From the storyOne of Cuba's most prominent dissidents has gone into exile in the US, after leaving Cuba where he had served a five-year prison sentence.

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From the storyOne of Cuba's most prominent dissidents has gone into exile in the US, after leaving Cuba where he had served a five-year prison sentence.

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From the storyOne of Cuba's most prominent dissidents has gone into exile in the US, after leaving Cuba where he had served a five-year prison sentence.

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