After an artist is detained in Cuba for celebrating Castro’s death, little hope for change
November 29, 2016
Chabeli Herrera, Miami Herald
Is a Cuba without one Castro a more open place for artists? Before anyone could get the question out this weekend, Cuba was already answering.
Cuban street artist Danilo Maldonado Machado, also known as El Sexto, was in a silent Havana early Saturday morning as news of dictator Fidel Castro’s death set the streets of Miami ablaze in celebration. Via a video posted on his Facebook page, the artist can be seen walking the nearly deserted Havana streets calling Castro a yegua, or mare, and calling on the public to celebrate Castro’s death.