US gives Cuba two-week ultimatum to release high-profile political prisoners

The United States government has issued an ultimatum demanding that Cuba release artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara and rapper Maykel Osorbo, who have been imprisoned on the island for five years. In a secret meeting on April 10 in Havana, as part of negotiations that both governments have confirmed but about which very little is officially known, State Department officials gave Cuban authorities a two-week deadline for the release of the high-profile artists “as a gesture of good faith,” as well as the release of the more than 1,000 other political prisoners held by the regime.

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