Cuban dictatorship refuses to provide medical care or set trial date for imprisoned dissident Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara

From our Bureau of Socialist Compassion and Brotherly Love

He has already spent eight months behind bars and knows that the dictatorship’s prosecutors are asking for a seven-year prison sentence, but he has yet to be informed of a trial date. He also has a lesion in one eye and is plagued by untreated seborrheic dermatitis, but prison authorities have yet to offer him any medical care. All this for the crime of criticizing the dictatorship.

Oh, but at least they allow him a brief monitored phone call now and then. So, see, Mildred, socialist can be very compassionate. No need to worry about what will happen in the U.S. when the Marx Sisters and Company take control.

For those of you in the cruel capitalist universe, Art Space Miami is currently hosting an exhibit of Luis Manuel’s art..

Loosely translated from Marti Noticias

Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara continues to suffer from health problems in the maximum security prison of Guanajay, in Artemisa, for which he is not receiving medical attention, Yanelys Núñez, the curator of Art and founder of the Museum of Dissidence, told Radio Televisión Martí. together with the artist currently a political prisoner and prisoner of conscience in Cuba.

The activist based in Spain reported that on Tuesday she received a call from Luis Manuel from Guanajay: “We speak very little, communication is always very short, less than a minute and what I could find out is that he has not had medical attention for what he has in his eye. He has something like a spot on his eye that he doesn’t know exactly what it is and that occurred when he was in the middle of the hunger strike in January and February, and it gave him paralysis. Since then he has had that spot on the eye has been asking for medical attention for a long time and it has not been given”.

“The other thing I asked him was the subject of seborrheic dermatitis that he has had for quite some time. He did not give me many details, but in the end, if it is not treated, if you remain in a state of stress, then that is progressing Nunez added.

The leader of the San Isidro Movement has been imprisoned since July 11, 2021 and has been held for eight months in the Guanajay maximum security prison.

On April 7, it was learned that the prosecutor’s request against him is seven years in prison for the alleged crimes of incitement to commit a crime, aggravated contempt and public disorder.

“I felt bad, there, a little anxious, but fine. More than anything, Luis is now, still without a trial date, so we don’t know when he will be him. If they are going to put it on from one day to the next, so that no one goes, if it is going to be a silent trial, well…”, declared Núñez.