Cuban dissident artist receives approval to travel to United States
World · 17 July 2026
Written by AI from multiple news reports
Cuban dissident artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara has received permission to travel to the United States after finishing his prison sentence.
Otero Alcántara spent five years in a Cuban prison. Authorities arrested him in July 2021 when he left his home in Havana to join large protests across the country. The charges against him included insulting national symbols and disturbing public order.
The human rights group Amnesty International called him a prisoner of conscience. After his sentence ended in July, nobody knew where he was.