{"id":914,"date":"2015-10-27T15:56:15","date_gmt":"2015-10-27T19:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mdcthereporter.com\/?p=914"},"modified":"2021-07-02T17:27:34","modified_gmt":"2021-07-02T21:27:34","slug":"college-joyful-but-watchful-over-freed-cuban-artist-maldonado-machado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/college-joyful-but-watchful-over-freed-cuban-artist-maldonado-machado\/","title":{"rendered":"College \u2018Joyful But Watchful\u2019 Over Freed Cuban Artist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Graffiti artist Danilo Maldonado Machado was freed from a Cuban jail on Oct. 20, nearly 10 months after he was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdcthereporter.com\/former-miami-dade-college-student-arrested-in-cuba\/\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">first jailed<\/span><\/a> for transporting two pigs with the names \u201cRaul\u201d and \u201cFidel\u201d painted on them as artistic protest. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Maldonado Machado was charged with disturbing the peace with a political performance art piece on Dec. 25, 2014. He was previously on a hunger strike. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI want to express my joy for this wonderful news at the same time I want to underline that it is a fragile situation,\u201d said Juan Blanco, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Executive Director of International Education and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Initiatives at Wolfson Campus. \u201cThe same way he was arbitrarily detained without any formal charges and never brought to court, they can do that again to him. We should remain joyful but watchful.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Blanco met Maldonado Machado when the artist studied at Miami Dade College last year with a group of 15 other Cuban dissidents, who were critical of the communist island government. The semester study abroad program was the first bridge of its kind for Cubans in 55 years. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The artist who is known by his artistic name \u201cEl Sexto,\u201d had been jailed in Cuba without trial since his arrest this past December when he attempted to release two pigs labeled \u201cRaul\u201d and \u201cFidel\u201d in a plaza in Havana for the public to catch and roast for their Christmas Eve feast.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In August, state officials told Maldonado Machado that he would be released, however, he remained in prison until his release on Oct. 20. He initiated a hunger strike on Sept. 8 in order to reclaim his freedom. On Oct. 1, El Sexto decided to end his hunger strike after a state official, acting as a mediator, promised that he would be released in fifteen days if he ended his hunger strike.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cHis sentence is still unstated,\u201d said Mariana Hernandez, of the Foundation for Human Rights in Cuba, shortly before he was released.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Foundation for Human Rights in Cuba stands against arbitrary detention and advocates for the respect for human rights and freedom of speech on the Communist island. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Maldonado Machado\u2019s friends and human rights organizations in and outside of Cuba have been waging a social media campaign protesting El Sexto\u2019s imprisionment. A number of posts listed the telephone numbers at the prison and the Cuban embassy in Washington D.C. urging people to call to voice their protest. Media including the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Miami Herald<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BBC<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The New York Times <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">covered his plight. The human rights organization Amnesty International named Maldonado Machado a prisoner of conscience and urged people to protest his sentence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A recent photo of El Sexto in jail showed the tall artist looking gaunt.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now that I started, I feel my faith, determination and self-esteem through the roof for having made this decision,\u201d <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">he wrote in a farewell letter from jail released on Sept. 16. \u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I am proud of being the artist that I am and make art that I do with the Cuba that I represent. So I am willing to give my life a hundred times if necessary.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For Maldonado Machado, graffiti and art are ways of expressing himself and his beliefs. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He created figurative and symbolic art, splashed across Havana\u2019s walls, much of which was critical of the Castro regime. In a video on social media his mother stated he has been denied art supplies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThese hard months haven\u2019t changed him, if he doesn\u2019t intend to do the same thing, he\u2019s going to find an alternative way to express himself,\u201d said Henry Constantin Ferreiro, a Cuba-based journalist, friend and former classmate of El Sexto. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Despite risk to those who speak out, the Foundation for Human Rights in Cuba continues to look for ways to continue bringing students to the U.S. for exchanges.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI believe all of us can do something. I think that perhaps this is a way to enlighten people,\u201d Blanco said. \u201cThis is a student of Miami Dade College who we know is facing that situation, and people might say \u2018Oh well, that\u2019s the way things are in Cuba.\u2019 But that is a way that most people don\u2019t like, even most Cubans don\u2019t like it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graffiti artist Danilo Maldonado Machado was freed from a Cuban jail on Oct. 20, nearly 10 months after he was first jailed for transporting two pigs with the names \u201cRaul\u201d and \u201cFidel\u201d painted on them as artistic protest. 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