New Delhi, Oct. 31 -- Influential Cuban dissident leader Jose Daniel Ferrer, recently exiled from Cuba, says that the island's fractured and weakened opposition movements need to shift strategies and oppose the government from outside the Caribbean nation.

The comments from Ferrer, in an interview with The Associated Press, come after he spent years in prison in Cuba where he believed he could fuel a larger fight against the government. "Being a prisoner turned me into a symbol of resistance," he told the AP in Miami.

Now, although he would prefer to be in Cuba, he said he believes he and other exiles must build a strategy outside of the island.

Ferrer said he was forced to leave his country because of the continuing government crackdo...