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After Whiskey With His Captors, Cuban Dissident Lands in a Miami Maelstrom

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The former political prisoner Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara is unpacking 4,000 paintings he brought to Miami from Cuba and dodging criticism from exiles who once welcomed him.

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