Roberto Mosquera, Former Head of the Latin Kings in Miami, Goes on Hunger Strike in Prison to Which He Was Deported in Africa

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When it was about four o’clock in the afternoon in South Africa, and in South Florida at ten o’clock this Friday morning, Roberto Mosquera — King Power, for the gang members — picked up his phone in his cell at Matsapha maximum security prison in Esuatini, and spoke to his best friend in Miami. Two days ago he went on hunger strike and is willing to extend it to the last consequences. He was deported to that country last July, something he only …

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From a maximum security cell in Esuatini, Africa, Roberto Mosquera—known as King Power in the gang world—started a hunger strike to protest his deportation. The 58-year-old Cuban was expelled from the United States last July, after serving his sentences, and remains in detention in a country where he has not committed any crime. The decision, according to his best friend in Miami for a ten-minute call, responds to the “accumulated suffering” and…