{"id":34201,"date":"2020-09-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/csw-yeo.1wp.site\/blog\/voices-from-cuba-alain-toledano-valiente-4794\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T14:14:29","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T13:14:29","slug":"voices-from-cuba-alain-toledano-valiente-4794","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/blog\/voices-from-cuba-alain-toledano-valiente-4794\/","title":{"rendered":"Voices from Cuba: Alain Toledano Valiente"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Apostle Alain Toledano Valiente is a prominent leader in the Apostolic Movement in Cuba. He also leads Emanuel Church in Santiago de Cuba along with his wife, <a href=\"https:\/\/forbinfull.org\/2020\/03\/30\/video-religious-freedom-in-cuba-the-lived-reality\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Maril\u00edn Alayo Correa<\/a>. Pastor Toledano and his wife have experienced intense harassment at the hands of the Cuban authorities for over two decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In February 2016, over 200 church leaders in Pastor Toledano\u2019s denomination were detained as the authorities <a href=\"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/2016\/02\/09\/news\/2977\/article.htm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">demolished<\/a> the Emanuel Church building. Pastor Toledano was out of the country at the time. Since then he has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/2019\/07\/15\/presionar\/4412\/article.htm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">prevented from leaving<\/a> Cuba, subjected to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/2019\/08\/27\/presionar\/4433\/article.htm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">repeated police summons<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/2019\/08\/09\/presionar\/4428\/article.htm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">threatened with imprisonment<\/a> on multiple occasions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In recent months, Pastor Toledano and his family have continued to experience severe harassment, even in spite of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and related lockdown measures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Watch Pastor Toledano tell his story in his own words:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Voices from Cuba: Alain Toledano Valiente\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yHYRGHt6YXI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alain Toledano Valiente is a prominent leader in the Apostolic Movement in Cuba.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":11937,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_seopress_news_disabled":"","_seopress_video_disabled":"","_seopress_video":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas_manual":[],"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable_all":"","_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[288],"tags":[],"regions":[140,137],"class_list":["post-34201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-posts","regions-cuba","regions-latin-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34201"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47043,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34201\/revisions\/47043"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34201"},{"taxonomy":"regions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/regions?post=34201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}