This year marks the second anniversary of the Cuban regime's violent suppression of peaceful protests and demonstrations across the island nation. Two years ago, on July 11, 2021, thousands of Cubans participated in a mass nationwide protest, peacefully demanding that their government adopt basic civil liberties and political freedoms. The scale of the protests caught the Cuban regime by surprise, as it did the rest of the world. But the Cuban regime's response was, unfortunately, not surprising.