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Supporting Political Prisoners in Latin America and the Caribbean [1]

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Date: 2024-11

Artist and co-founder of the Movimiento San Isidro, on July 11, 2021, Luis posted a video to tell his followers that he planned to join an antigovernment protest in Havana, Cuba: “Family, I am going to the streets,” he said. “Whatever it costs me. Democracy is what we want.” Luis was unjustly arrested along with thousands of fellow Cubans. Since his arrest, Alcántara has remained in a maximum-security prison, engaging in a series of hunger strikes to protest his confinement. He was sentenced to five years in prison in June 2022 after a closed-door trial, and his health continues to deteriorate as authorities deny him proper medical care.

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