URSY.NEWS / The Guardian / 17 Oct 2026
‘I spent five years with criminals’: dissident Cuban artist embraces new life in US after prison release
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Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara tells of the reality of prison, drinking whisky with his captors, and being painted by George W BushWhen Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara was pushed into the back of a police car on 11 July 2021, during the biggest protests Cuba had seen in nearly three decades, he expected to be in custody for “one, maybe two days”. Instead five years would pass before he was free, and onl…
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