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life for those around them. Here in America, as
David said, we have an abundance of things. But
let me tell you, having an abundance does not take
the place of happiness and fulfillment. I walked
away feeling they were much more free than I.
• Editor’s Note: Manuel Cuesta Morúa was arrested on January 26, 2014, for attempting to organize a Alternative Forum to the Second
CELAC Summit, which would be held in Havana, and include discussions about the Constitutive Declaration of this sub-hemispheric space,
which brings together Latin American and Caribbean Heads of State, as would be the case with
any summit around the world. This is why he was
held for four days, interrogated, and accused of
Spreading False News against International

Peace, according to Article 115 of the Cuban Penal Code. Its purpose is to try to discipline opinion basing itself on the most recent, Soviet-style
Constitution, of 1976. After being released, he
was subjected to a Cautionary Measure, which required him to go to a police station every Tuesday
to confirm his presence. It also prevented him
from leaving the country to attend the 2014
LASA Conference, the AfricAméricas II event,
and an event in Poland to which he was invited by
the Lech Walesa Institute. The authorities argued
that his numerous articles and essays about
Cuba’s reality, particularly on the subject of race,
threatened world peace. On November 14, 2014,
the Cautionary Measure against was lifted and his
case dismissed, without there ever having been a
trial, due to the lack of legal evidence to justify it.
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