Rafael Vilches Proenza

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Vilches Proenza is a novelist and poet whose work critical of the Cuban government. In 2021, he was briefly detained, interrogated, and threatened several times. In November, he was given a letter explaining that he was arrested for his activism, signing a letter in support of protests, and writing his novel Red Inquisition. Vilches Proenza says he remains under threat, as a “non-person” in his homeland.