{"id":344798,"date":"2026-07-18T22:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T22:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/344798\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T22:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T22:58:08","slug":"imprisoned-cuban-artist-luis-manuel-otero-alcantara-arrives-in-miami-after-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/344798\/","title":{"rendered":"Imprisoned Cuban artist Luis Manuel Otero Alc\u00e1ntara arrives in Miami after release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0July 18, 2026 at 6:40 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI \u2014 Cuban artist and activist Luis Manuel Otero Alc\u00e1ntara has arrived in Miami after being released from prison and allowed to go into exile.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Alc\u00e1ntara posted a photo from the plane as he traveled to South Florida.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 38-year-old was one of hundreds of dissidents jailed following the historic protests in Cuba five years ago, when demonstrators took to the streets demanding change.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Congressman Carlos Gimenez reacted to the news on social media, writing in part:<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cLuis Manuel is not a criminal; he is a Cuban patriot whose only \u2018fault\u2019 was refusing to be silenced and demanding the fundamental rights that the regime has stolen from our people for nearly seven decades.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Five years after those protests, Cubans continue demonstrating as conditions on the communist island deteriorate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The U.S. has also continued its pressure campaign on the Cuban government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A U.S. Embassy official said the Cuban government released Alc\u00e1ntara so he could travel to the United States with his family and said the embassy had been pushing for his release.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Janine Stanwood\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/21e83aab-f6c0-4437-b3.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Janine Stanwood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Janine Stanwood is an Emmy award-winning reporter and anchor. She joined Local 10 News in February 2004 as an assignment editor. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0July 18, 2026 at 6:40 PM MIAMI \u2014 Cuban artist and activist Luis Manuel Otero Alc\u00e1ntara has arrived&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-344798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}