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====Date: [[:Category:1991|1991]]====
====Date: [[:Category:1953|1953]] - Present====


====Region: [[:Category:Central America and the Caribbean|Central America and the Caribbean]]====
====Region: [[:Category:Central America and the Caribbean|Central America and the Caribbean]]====
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====Medium: [[:Category:Literature|Literature]]====
====Medium: [[:Category:Literature|Literature]]====
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'''Artist:''' Maria Elena Cruz Varela
'''Artist:''' Maria Elena Cruz Varela


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'''Description of Artwork:''' Cruz Varela is a poet and human rights activist who is a leader of a Cuban democratic coalition called Criterio Alternativo, a known group of anti-Castro intellectuals.
'''Description of Artwork:''' Cruz Varela is a poet and human rights activist who is a leader of a Cuban democratic coalition called Criterio Alternativo, a known group of anti-Castro intellectuals.


'''The Incident:'''  
'''The Incident:''' She was imprisoned for 18 months between 1991 and 1993 and then held under house arrest before going into exile in 1994.


'''Results of Incident:''' Unknown.
'''Results of Incident:''' She now lives in Spain where she continues to write and teach.  


'''Source:''' Human Rights Watch/Americas Watch
'''Source:''' Human Rights Watch/Americas Watch, and [http://www.internationalpen.org.uk/index.cfm?objectid=226C5444-3048-676E-26482C177A01A86E PEN international]


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Latest revision as of 18:38, 11 June 2014

Date: 1953 - Present

Region: Central America and the Caribbean

Subject: Political/Economic/Social Opinion

Medium: Literature


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Artist: Maria Elena Cruz Varela

Confronting Bodies: Cuban government under Fidel Castro

Dates of Action: November 19, 1991

Location: Cuba

Description of Artwork: Cruz Varela is a poet and human rights activist who is a leader of a Cuban democratic coalition called Criterio Alternativo, a known group of anti-Castro intellectuals.

The Incident: She was imprisoned for 18 months between 1991 and 1993 and then held under house arrest before going into exile in 1994.

Results of Incident: She now lives in Spain where she continues to write and teach.

Source: Human Rights Watch/Americas Watch, and PEN international