I’m One of Cuba’s Political Prisoners. When Will I Go Free?

By Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara

Mr. Otero Alcántara is a Cuban artist and activist. He wrote from Guanajay Prison, Cuba.

In early April, amid mounting U.S. pressure, the Cuban government announced that it was releasing over 2,000 prisoners in what the Cuban Embassy in Washington called a “humanitarian and sovereign gesture.” The embassy said the amnesty would not extend to those who had committed “crimes against authority,” a term generally applied to political dissidents. In other words, it did........

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