Otero Alcántara, leader of the Movement San Isidro, was hospitalized on May 2 after the authorities broke into his home and took him out by force after more than eight days on hunger strike
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Thursday, December 26
Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara: the artist receives a “medical discharge” after being isolated for almost a month in a hospital in Havana
The Cuban artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara , the most visible face of the opposition in Cuba, received “medical discharge” this Monday, after more than four weeks isolated in a hospital in Havana.
“The medical team has decided to discharge him from the hospital today,” said a statement on Facebook from the Provincial Health Directorate of Havana.
Alcántara’s relatives confirmed to BBC Mundo that the artist had been “freed” and that he was staying with some uncles.
“He is quite well, he is in the house of his grandmother who died while they had him in the hospital and they did not let him go to the wake,” Alcántara’s uncle Enix Berrío told BBC Mundo.
“Right now he’s getting in tune with everything that happened, because he doesn’t know anything about what happened in the outside world during the last month,” he added.
Otero Alcántara, leader of the San Isidro Movement, a group of artists, journalists and intellectuals seeking a change in the island, he was hospitalized on May 2 after the authorities broke into his home and took him out by force after more than eight days on hunger strike.
Initially, the health authorities showed medical examinations in which they indicated that the artist had “normal parameters”, but for reasons that are still unknown they kept him hospitalized until this Monday.
His stay in the hospital caused a wide commotion on the island, with friends and followers of Alcántara describing what happened as “state kidnapping”, since the hospital was militarized and his followers and many of his relatives did not have They had access to the facilities.
For almost a month, the only information we had about the artist were videos published on State Security channels on social networks.
However, this Monday in a new statement, the Provincial Health Directorate of Havana said that they had decided to discharge him “after the recovery of energy requirements” and “with parameters clinical and laboratory tests that are all within normal ranges. ”
The government of Cuba considers Alcántara a“ mercenary ”and a“ provocateur ”and they accuse him of receive funds and serve the US
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