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Tens of thousands of Cubans are protesting in the streets because of dire conditions brought about by the Caribbean nation's communist regime. What is going on there, what will be the repercussions for protesters who have had the courage to gather in the streets, and how should the U.S.\xa0respond?\n"It's a very dark moment right now," says Mike Gonzalez, a Cuban native who is a senior fellow in the Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy at The Heritage Foundation, the parent organization of The Daily Signal.\nGonzalez joins "The Daily Signal Podcast" to discuss the situation.\n"The state police is out there. They were called out by the puppet president, Miguel D\xedaz-Canel," Gonzalez says. "They're rounding up people, beating people up. I know of at least one pro-democracy priest\u2014Castor \xc1lvarez in the city of Camaguey in the east ... of the island of Cuba\u2014who was severely beaten up and I think stripped naked. And his whereabouts are unknown. This is from dissident sources. For all we know, Father Castor could be dead."\nWe also cover these stories:\n\nPresident Joe Biden issues a statement of support for Cubans who protested Sunday across the country.\n\nSen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., asks the National Security Agency's director to investigate allegations by Fox News Channel host Tucker Carlson that the NSA is spying on him.\xa0\n\nBen Carson, former secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, calls out critical race theory in an interview with Fox.\xa0\n\n\n Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.