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Padilla affair
Heberto Juan Padilla (20 January 1932 – 25 September 2000) was a Cubanpoet put to the center of the so-called Padilla affair when he was imprisoned for criticizing the Cuban government.[1][2] He was born in Puerta de Golpe, Pinar del Río, Cuba.
His first book of poetry, Las rosas audaces (The Audacious Roses), was published in 1949. Although Padilla initially supported the revolution led by Fidel Castro, by the late 1960s he began to criticize it openly and in 1971 he was imprisoned by the Cuban government.[3][4][5]
Background
Criticism of the revolution
See also: P.M.
affair
A series of articles were posted in Verde Olivo, the magazine of the armed forces, under the name Leopaldo Avila, prompting a stricter outline of the government's cultural policy.[6] The conditional tolerance of Cuban literature required more than just a basic support for the Revolution.
Thus a declaration of