{"id":1319,"date":"2015-04-21T14:19:19","date_gmt":"2015-04-21T18:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mdcthereporter.com\/?p=1319"},"modified":"2021-07-23T12:35:05","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T16:35:05","slug":"former-miami-dade-college-student-maldonado-machado-arrested-in-cuba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/former-miami-dade-college-student-maldonado-machado-arrested-in-cuba\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Miami Dade College Student Arrested In Cuba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nearly a year after Cuban artist and former Miami Dade College student, Danilo Maldonado Machado, left Miami, he is being held in jail accused of disturbing the peace with a political performance art piece.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Maldonado <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Machado, known as \u201cEl Sexto,\u201d is a 32-year-old human rights activist from Havana who expresses himself through graffiti. Cuban authorities call his art decadent<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">because he criticizes the regime. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Authorities arrested Maldonado Machado on Dec. 25 for planning a performance and exercising his freedom of speech.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The performance that Maldonado Machado conceived was to paint the names \u201cRaul\u201d and \u201cFidel\u201d on two oiled pigs. He was set to release them for people to catch in the Central Park of Havana. His goal by doing this was to provide a Christmas meal for the lucky family who caught the animals. The artist could face up to three years in jail.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The independent Cuban website <a href=\"http:\/\/14ymedio.com\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">14ymedio.com<\/span><\/a> reports that Maldonado Machado has been jailed numerous times for artwork critical of the Castro regime.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Maldonado Machado came to MDC last January for a semester when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdcthereporter.com\/miami-dade-college-welcomes-group-of-cuban-students-for-the-first-time-in-five-decades\/\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">the College hosted 15 students from Cuba<\/span><\/a> to study abroad here for the first time in 55 years. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Miami-based Foundation for Human Rights in Cuba (<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">FHRC)<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> sponsored the students\u2019 tuition, living expenses and other auxiliary costs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe goal was to simply provide access to people in general,\u201d said Juan Blanco, executive director at the College president\u2019s office. \u201cThe results were above average of MDC.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Blanco describes Maldonado Machado as a very calm and sweet person.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cHe\u2019s the kind of person that is very hard to not like,\u201d Blanco said. \u201cVery cooperative and willing to give a hand [to those] who need it. [He] felt committed to changing the Cuban system through his art.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But Cuban authorities did not take kindly to his art and his commitment to change.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cHe was stopped on his way to the performance,\u201d Blanco said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Cuban authorities jailed the graffiti artist for staging the symbolic pig stunt.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThey have not yet tried him, but he is incarcerated,\u201d said Henry Constantin Ferreiro, Maldonado Machado\u2019s friend and Cuban journalist who joined him at MDC last year. \u201cAnything can happen in Cuba but I have faith that we will get him out of jail soon.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The FHRC has been fighting for Maldonado Machado\u2019s release. They helped launch a campaign to #FreeElSexto and created a petition on change.org<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe think that any vocal, nonviolent effort, both inside and outside of Cuba, including the petition can help to create awareness for El Sexto\u2019s situation and help him get out of jail,\u201d said Jose Luis Martinez, the Director of Communications for the FHRC. \u201cDanilo was only trying to attempt a piece of public performance art in December which ultimately led to his arrest and subsequent incarceration without trial to this day.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Blanco said the Cuban jail system is known for doing whatever they want. In most cases, prisoners are in cells without running water.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Maldonado Machado\u2019s grandmother told 14Ymedio.com:<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u201cHe was sleeping on the floor for two months because for him, as for many other prisoners, there was no bed. They don\u2019t even let an aspirin in. Danilo is chronically asthmatic, he had pneumonia, and they denied him antibiotics.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Blanco fears Maldonado Machado may be harmed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt is not unusual that the guards ask other delinquents to attack you,\u201d Blanco said. \u201cSometimes you share a very small cell with many, many people. There are many accounts of people that were in jail there, and most of them give the same description.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Constantin Ferreiro said the Cuban government lives in fear of losing power. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAny discrepancy or critic the government receives from its people they handle it like it is an attack on their status,\u201d Constantin Ferreiro said. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The FHRC considers Maldonado Machado a political prisoner and is demanding his immediate and unconditional release.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cDanilo is an exceptional artist, activist, we like to use the term \u201cartivist\u201d and a good person who believes in the basic right of Free Expression, as well as all basic human rights, and democracy,\u201d Martinez said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While at MDC, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Maldonado Machado studied <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">sociology, computers, psychology, business and English.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a heartfelt article <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Maldonado Machado wrote for <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Reporter <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published on Feb. 13, 2014 entitled \u201cThank You Miami Dade College\u201d he marveled at the differences between the two countries and the freedom of expression here.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He wrote: \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shock is what I felt when I learned that here you only need five students in order to form a group of some sort while in my country, the only group for the youth to join is the UJC, the Union of Young Communists, assuming they are not expelled from school, like San Miguel Molina, who got thrown out of medical school for having contrasting political views.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During the Summit of the Americas in Panama last week President Barack Obama met with Cuban leader Raul Castro and brought up the importance of freedom for civil society activists like Maldonado Machado. Cubans on opposing ends of ideology, including Constantin Ferreiro, demonstrated in the streets of the Central American city. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In Panama, Maldonado Machado\u2019s friend <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gorki \u00c1guila, a musician and director of the band Porno para Ricardo, performed a song about the graffiti artist\u2019s plight. On Maldonado Machado\u2019s Facebook page, friends posted an enormous image of a bearded El Sexto wearing an orange T-shirt, jeans and a cap projected on the stage during the performance with the words Libertad Para Danilo (Freedom for Danilo) across his torso. Postings on the Twitter hashtag #ElSexto and #FreeElSexto demand his release.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Last week, in New York City\u2019s Times Square, artists and activists performed an interactive spoken word tribute to <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Maldonado Machado and others jailed in Cuba linked to the Twitter hashtag #yotambienexijo or \u201cI also demand.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Also last week, the New York City-based Human Rights Foundation awarded Maldonado Machado the<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/humanrightsfoundation.org\/programs\/hrf-programs\/vaclav-havel-prize-for-creative-dissent\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">V\u00e1clav Havel International Prize for Creative Dissent<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> along with two other activists.<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Foundation\u2019s website said the prize celebrates those who, with bravery and ingenuity, unmask the lie of dictatorship by living in truth. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Maldonado Machado<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> will be honored in a ceremony during the 2015 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/oslofreedomforum.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oslo Freedom Forum<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the Norwegian city on May 27.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly a year after Cuban artist and former Miami Dade College student, Danilo Maldonado Machado, left Miami, he is being held in jail accused of disturbing the peace with a political performance art piece. 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