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US and Cuba spar over jailed dissident – but is José Daniel Ferrer really a political prisoner?

  • Written by María Isabel Alfonso, Professor of Spanish, St. Joseph's College of New York
US and Cuba spar over jailed dissident – but is José Daniel Ferrer really a political prisoner?Cuban dissident Jose Daniel Ferrer was a US ally in Cuba during the Obama-era restoration of diplomatic and economic ties with the Island.Sven Creutzmann/Getty Images

Cuba and the United States are in dispute over the prolonged detention of a Cuban dissident.

José Daniel Ferrer, head of an opposition group called Patriotic Union of Cuba, has...

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