The Movimiento San Isidro Oral History Project features interviews with leaders of the San Isidro Movement, a social and political group of Cuban dissident artists protesting the country's Decree 349 that requires artists to obtain prior approval from the Ministry of Culture to perform in public and private spaces. The group protests police violence, with some members using non-violent methods of resistance such as hunger strikes to bring attention to their cause. The oral history project was funded by the AMIGOS of the Cuban Heritage Collection. For more information, please visit https://www.library.miami.edu/chc/amigos.html. Editing courtesy of Immigrant Archive Project.
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Interview with Amaury Pacheco (1969-), co-founder of Movimiento San Isidro and human rights activist. Pacheco founded the socio-community artistic organization Omni Zona…
Interview with Amaury Pacheco
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Interview with Anamely Ramos González (Camagüey, 1985), artist, human rights activist, and professor. Ramos graduated with a degree in art history (2007) and…
Interview with Anamely Ramos
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Interview with Iris Ruiz Hernández (1980-), an actress and theater instructor active in the Movimiento San Isidro. Ruiz Hernández was born in El Alamar…
Interview with Iris Ruiz Hernández
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Interview with Javier Moreno (1975-), poet, narrator, and independent journalist whose works have been published in ADN Cuba and Havana Times. Moreno is the author of…
Interview with Javier Moreno
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Interview with Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara (1987-), Cuban performance artist and dissident. Known for public performances that criticize the Cuban government and its…
Interview with Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara
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Interview with Michel Matos, musician and producer of Matraka, an alternative platform promoting techno music in Cuba. An advocate for cultural rights in Cuba, Matos has…
Interview with Michel Matos
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Interview with Nonardo Perea, a non-binary Cuban writer and multidisciplinary visual artist who joined the Movimiento San Isidro to support LGBTQ+ people's right to…
Interview with Nonardo Perea
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Interview with René Rodríguez Cepeda, Cuban actor and activist who has been detained for his support of freedom of artistic expression on the island.
Interview with René Rodríguez Cepeda
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Interview with Sandor Pérez Pita, a reggae singer known in the Rastafarian world as Rassandino.
Interview with Sandor Pérez Pita
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Interview with Soandry del Rio, Cuban rapper and member of Movimiento San Isidro.
Interview with Soandry del Rio
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Verónica Vega (La Habana, 1965-) is a writer and artist who has worked in the field of dance and participated in the multidisciplinary project OMNI Zonafranca.…
Interview with Verónica Vega
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Yanelys Núñez Leyva (Havana, 1989-) is a curator and human rights activist. She is a political exile currently living in Spain. Núñez Leyva…
Interview with Yanelys Núñez Leyva
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Yasser Castellanos is a writer and visual artist who was an early member of Movimiento San Isidro (MSI). An opposition figure, he was associated with the group OMNI Zona…
Interview with Yasser Castellanos
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