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Apr 01, 1983 Nuevitas, Camagüey Province, Cuba 41 years old Aries
Danilo Maldonado Machado - Place of Birth, Date of Birth, Age, Wiki, Facts, Net Worth, Birthday, Biography and Family
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About Danilo Maldonado Machado
- Danilo Maldonado Machado, known as El Sexto (The Sixth), born April 1, 1983, is a Cuban graffiti artist and human rights activist who has been arrested and imprisoned several times in Cuba.
- In the United States he is currently in prison awaiting trial for aggravated stalking.
- He was denied bail and will be tried in March 2019.
- He faces up to 5 years in state prison.
- The charges against him were filed by his wife Alexandra Martinez and involve credible threats to her life according to the police reports.His graffiti art is a form of protest, criticizing the abuse of the Cuban people at the hands of the Castro regime, and he is “frequently detained by the police under any pretext.” He has been called “a graffiti artist who does not forgive the Cuban regime.” A report in April 2015 stated that he was, at that time, “the most persecuted of Cuban artists.”Cuban writer and artist Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo has praised Maldonado as “a free artist widely hated for his courage and his genius.” Cuban dissident Rosa María Payá has said that although born under totalitarianism, Maldonado has somehow managed to be a free spirit and “the Cuban regime does not forgive that.”
