Former political prisoner shows his tattoos in Miami to denounce human rights violations in Cuba.

After spending more than two decades in prison in Cuba for opposing the regime, Laurel Camacho Ricardo emigrated to the United States, where, after being released, he shared the reasons that motivated him to transform his body into a canvas of peaceful protest, getting tattooed to denounce human rights violations in his homeland.

Journalist Javier Díaz shared on Facebook the story of this Cuban, who experienced firsthand the horrors and injustices that the dictatorship is capable of committing.

Camacho touched down on March 18 in Marathon, Florida, and, months after being released and facing the risk of deportation, declared that this is his way of continuing to protest against the regime.

On his chest, he tattooed the text "Homeland and Life," and further down, the Statue of Liberty with the word "Freedom."

On his right arm, he had the phrase "Human Rights" written, along with the words "Enough" and "Changes". Meanwhile, on his left arm, it was inscribed "Long live Democracy".

On his back, he tattooed the phrase "Homeland and Life," as well as "Down with the Communism of Cuba. Enough!"

This Cuban covered his body with these tattoos in rejection of the physical and psychological torture he endured for 22 years while imprisoned in Cuba.

"I expressed my political opinion on my body for that reason: a peaceful protest against the violation of human rights of the Cuban people," Camacho explained.

After the demonstrations on July 11, 2021, some people chose the art of tattooing to express their political opinion, also as an act of protest.

In 2020, a Cuban recorded a brief but forceful political message on his body: "Cuba Yes, Castros No," as an act of protest against the government's arbitrarily actions against the island's people.

That same year, another Cuban tattooed on his chest the phrase “Change, 19-10-2020 and free Cuba” as a way to express his disagreement with the regime in Havana.

"Communists, now you're really going to have to rip the skin off my chest," wrote Denis Solís González on his Facebook wall, where he shared images of his bare torso with the words engraved.