Commentary Long before the current protests in Cuba, the Cuban people’s distaste for their dictatorship showed, as many shifted from the old revolutionary slogan “Hasta la victoria siempre,” meaning “on to victory, always,” to “Hasta cuándo?” meaning “how much longer.” The protests are a moment of hope and foreboding. Since the mid-1990s, not one protest movement has replaced a repressive dictatorship with a stable democracy, with the interesting exception of Tunisia. And many high-profile groups, Canadian groups included if the past is any guide, will jump to the defence of the Cuban regime. Tyrants of all stripes have learned that their power can endure if they don’t mind massacring their people. Regimes, which once accepted conventional wisdom that violence ferments more opposition, are now unrestrained, bolstered by the success of blood suppression in Myanmar, Syria, Belarus, Venezuela, Iran, and others. The internet was shut down in Cuba, but reports of …