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Cuba cracks down on artists who demanded creative freedoms after 'unprecedented' government negotiations

  • Written by María Isabel Alfonso, Professor of Spanish, St. Joseph's College of New York
imageA group of young intellectuals and artists demonstrates at the doors of the Ministry of Culture during a protest in Havana on Nov. 27. Yamil Lage/AFP via Getty Images

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Cuban artists and intellectuals want more rights – and, in an unusual show of dissent, they demanded the government sit down with them to negotiate.

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