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Outspoken Cuban musician Gorki Aguila and graffiti artist El Sexto arrested by Castro State Security

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Dissident Cuban artist and photographer Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo is reporting from Cuba that last night, Castro State Security arrested both musician Gorki Aguila and graffiti artist El Sexto. As of this moment, the reasons for their arrest has not been disclosed and their whereabouts are unknown.

Aguila is the outspoken leader of the banned and often arrested punk rock band Porno Para Ricardo, whose song lyrics express biting criticism of the Castro dictatorship. And in recent months, El Sexto has gained popularity in Cuba along with the wrath of the Castro regime for his critical graffiti and writings in opposition to the Cuban regime and in support of the island's human rights activists.

3 comments to Outspoken Cuban musician Gorki Aguila and graffiti artist El Sexto arrested by Castro State Security

  • drillanwr

    And the Castro/communist loving Hollywood/celeb types in this country simply cannot make the slightest connection or have even an inkling or intelligence of God-given instinctual self-preservation foresight to imagine THIS would happen to them in their ideal state-run Marxist utopia.

    Eventually it catches up with everybody, even the useful idiot sycophants who bring it on the heads of the rest of us who initially resist, some to the death. But nooooo, let's wear Che T-shirts and cuddle with Castro on lovely tropical paradise visits to the tourist enclaves of the island.

    I NEVER hear of any American artists/celebs supporting Gorki. What a travesty. What a mortal sin.

  • asombra

    Oh, no, heaven forbid the trendoids ever condescend to support anything not clearly leftist. Can't have that.

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