Pedro Luis Boitel
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 52 years ago |
Date of birth | May 13,1931 |
Zodiac sign | Taurus |
Born | Picardy |
France | |
Date of died | May 25,1972 |
Died | Havana |
Cuba | |
Job | Poet |
Nationality | Cuban |
Place of burial | Necrópolis Cristóbal Colón, Havana, Cuba |
Education | Universidad de la Habana |
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ID | 1660480 |
Pedro Luis Boitel Life story
Pedro Luis Boitel was a Cuban poet and dissident who opposed the governments of both Fulgencio Batista and Fidel Castro. In 1961, the regime sentenced him to 10 years in prison. Boitel died during a hunger strike in prison in 1972 while serving a sentence handed down by the communist regime.