

Havana, spring 1971: the poet Heberto Padilla has just been released and appears before the Cuban writers' union, where he intones a “heartfelt self-criticism,” declares himself a counterrevolutionary agent and accuses many of his colleagues present of complicity. among them, his wife. A month ago, his arrest on charges of attacking the security of the Cuban state mobilized the intellectual vanguard of the entire world, who wrote a letter to Fidel Castro demanding the freedom of the poet, whose only sin was to dissent through his work. poetics.
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