Bezos and the crew were the first human spaceflight for the company. Yet the world’s wealthiest man, once eager to celebrate his father’s story as a Cuban refugee, has remained silent on the issue – despite embarking on the biggest public relations tour of his life.īlue Origin’s New Shepard crew (L-R) Oliver Daemen, Mark Bezos, and Jeff Bezos hold a press conference after flying into space in the Blue Origin New Shepard rocket on Jin Van Horn, Texas. Cubans on multiple continents –in Italy, Japan, and Argentina, among other countries – organized displays in solidarity with the movement against communism at home. Nearly every major city in America has hosted rallies and protests urging the U.S. The Cuban diaspora has responded passionately to these protests. The Communist Party also shut down access to the internet, making it much more difficult for Cubans to share videos of the repression with the outside world. In response, the Castro regime issued an “order of combat” to pro-regime civilians, urging them to physically assault anyone suspected of participating in protests. While the regime actively repressed reporting from the island – including gang-beating an Associated Press photographer – observers estimate that thousands of people took the streets and that police arrested or forcibly disappeared many as 5,000 were either arrested or forcibly disappeared. That momentum led to an eruption of protests in dozens of municipalities and every major city nationwide on July 11 demanding an end to the Communist Party regime. Pro-democracy dissident groups have spent years organizing peaceful marches and other assemblies against the regime, culminating last year in a massive protest in front of the Cuban Ministry of Culture over a regime law that made it illegal to write, paint, or engage in any artistic activity without first obtaining a government permit. Cuba has endured 62 years of brutal communist repression under the currently still-ruling Castro family mafia.
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