One is black, the other is white.

One is 33 years old.

The other, 26. One is an artist, the other a journalist.

You live in the Caribbean.

The other in Central Europe.

But Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara and Roman

Protasevich

have something in common: they have both been kidnapped by the communist governments of Cuba and Belarus.

They are only known from the videos that their captors have shown.

The sparkling Otero appears sunk, alienated.

Protasevich has bruise marks on his face that make-up fails to camouflage.

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