Cuban artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara lands in Miami after exile deal
Nothing says "freedom of expression" quite like a government giving an artist a one-way ticket out of the country.
Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara spent five years in a Cuban prison for making art the regime didn't like. His crime was being a vocal dissident and creating music and visual art that criticized the government.
The Cuban government finally decided to let him out, but with a massive catch: he had to leave the country immediately and never look back. So he boarded a flight and landed in Miami, joining a long list of creators forced to choose between a cell and exile.
It turns out the regime's preferred method of art criticism is just buying the artist a single plane ticket.
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