Jorge Luis García Pérez

Jorge Luis García Pérez (born 10 October 1964), known as Antúnez, is an Afro-Cuban human rights and democracy activist from Placetas.

During a demonstration in March 1990, State Security heard him saying that communism is an error and a dystopia. Saying that was a crime of "verbal enemy propaganda", he was sentenced to five years in prison. In prison, he refused to wear the uniform and participate in "re-education", which meant violent beatings, nine months in solitary confinement and more years in prison. He escaped from prison to see his sick mother, but could not find her and was free only for a day. His mother died a month later. He was found guilty of "attempted sabotage".

Antúnez, his ex-wife Iris, and Diosiris Santana Pérez launched a hunger strike in 2009. Several leaders from Uruguay, Costa Rica, and Argentina declared their support for Antúnez. Police threatened Antúnez with eviction from his house and "disobedience" charges for hosting three other dissident thinkers (Osiris Santana Pérez, Ernesto Mederos Arrozarena and Carlos Michael Morales Rodríguez) in his home in April 2009.

Antúnez's ex-wife founded the Rosa Parks Feminist Movement for Civil Rights. Antúnez himself was a member of Orlando Zapata Tamayo which was to defend political prisoners.

When U.S. President Barack Obama announced a blueprint for normalizing relations with Cuba on 17 December 2014, Antúnez criticized the normalization plan as a capitulation to the Cuban government, echoing the views of Berta Soler and Oscar Elias Biscet that the US should have demanded democratic reforms in Cuba before contemplating a change in US policy towards Cuba.

Antúnez moved to the United States with his wife, Magalys Rivaflecha, and daughter in 2019.