Jorge Valls Arango (February 2, 1933 – October 22, 2015) was a Cuban activist and poet of who spent more than two decades in prison for his opposition to Fidel Castro.
[1] He was first arrested in 1952 while a student at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the University of Havana, when he demonstrated his opposition to the 1952 Batista coup d'état.
[4] During the trial of Batista police informant Marcos Rodríguez in 1964, Valls was denounced for having been "a known anti-Communist" in the University of Havana "who demanded that the Directorio Revolucionario Estudiantil be an anti-Communist organization, and that Jorge Valls pronounced for the expulsion of Communist students from the university struggles.
After his release, he moved to Miami, Florida where in 1986, he wrote a book Twenty Years and Forty Days: Life in a Cuban Prison, in which he speaks about his experiences behind bars.
He also published a couple of poem books in Spanish including Donde estoy no hay luz y está enrejado.