US-Cuba deal to bring release of more than 500 detainees: ‘I thought I’d never get out’
As part of agreement brokered by the Vatican, those arrested in street protests in Cuba in July 2021 will be freed
When Maykel González Vivero, a journalist and LGBTQ+ activist, was picked up by police during massive street protests in Cuba in July 2021, he was driven to a detention centre on the outskirts of Havana and thrown into a jail cell with dozens of others.
“When I was in that cell I thought I would never get out. I prepared myself mentally,” he said. He was released that night, but hundreds of others were not.
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