Message From a Cuban Jail
null By Mary Anastasia O’GradyDec. 24, 2023 4:20 pm ETLuis Manuel Otero Alcántara in 2021. Photo: Ernesto Mastrascusa/Zuma PressChristians celebrate the Incarnation this week while many nonbelievers celebrate new stuff from Bloomingdale’s and Walmart. They can seem miles apart. But a common thread in the West connects the religious and secular in this season. It’s the call to remember the forgotten, oppressed and less-fortunate. At the top of my list this year are Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, 36, and the more than 1,000 other courageous political prisoners in Cuban dungeons. They’re the poor and marginalized of Cuban society and they’ve stuck their necks out in the name of liberty. Their reward has been abandonment by the great powers. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8About this articleThe Americas“The Americas” column is commentary on political, economic, financial and social developments in the Western Hemisphere outside
Dec. 24, 2023 4:20 pm ET
Christians celebrate the Incarnation this week while many nonbelievers celebrate new stuff from Bloomingdale’s and Walmart. They can seem miles apart. But a common thread in the West connects the religious and secular in this season. It’s the call to remember the forgotten, oppressed and less-fortunate.
At the top of my list this year are Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, 36, and the more than 1,000 other courageous political prisoners in Cuban dungeons. They’re the poor and marginalized of Cuban society and they’ve stuck their necks out in the name of liberty. Their reward has been abandonment by the great powers.
Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
About this article
Mary Anastasia O'Grady writes "The Americas," a weekly column on politics, economics and business in Latin America and Canada that appears every Monday in the Journal. Ms. O'Grady joined the paper in August 1995 and became a senior editorial page writer in December 1999. She was appointed an editorial board member in November 2005. She is also a member of the board of directors of the Indianapolis-based Liberty Fund.
In 2012 Ms. O’Grady won the Walter Judd Freedom Award from The Fund for American Studies. In 2009 Ms. O'Grady received the Thomas Jefferson Award from The Association of Private Enterprise Education. In 2005 Ms. O'Grady won the Bastiat Prize for Journalism awarded by the International Policy Network for her articles on the World Bank, the underground economy in Brazil and the bad economic advice the U.S. often gives to Latin American countries. In 1997 Ms. O'Grady won the Inter American Press Association's Daily Gleaner Award for editorial commentary.
Ms. O'Grady received a bachelor's degree in English from Assumption College and an M.B.A. in financial management from Pace University.
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