https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/cuba/article317215004.html https://img.thecontentserver.com/1d684d52-5bfb-4071-8d35-2c4a04d20b02/1_th.jpg Exiled Cuban artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara accepts 2026 Democracy Award Exiled Cuban artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara accepted the 2026 Democracy Award from the National Endowment for Democracy on behalf of himself and fellow Cuban dissidents who remain imprisoned in Cuba. The ceremony was held Sept. 10 in Mount Vernon, Virginia. The award ceremony ended with a performance of “Patria y Vida,” the song that became the unofficial anthem of the 2021 protests, by Cuban rappers Yotuel Romero and Eliecer Marquez, known as El Funky, and Cuban artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcantara. https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/cuba/article317215004.html/video-embed 330 2026-09-11T21:52:41Z no