Dear Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk,
We are writing to you, free and successful businessmen, with enormous management capacity and initiative, in the hope that you can help us at a time when the Cuban people suffer the brutality of an oppressive regime. Specifically, we ask for your contribution to provide directly or through the alliances that you consider feasible, in coordination with the Biden Administration if necessary, an Internet without filters in Cuba. An Internet independent from Cuban state companies, which protects the population from government abuse and allows Cubans to free themselves.
As you may know, on July 11, even with the Internet running, Cubans took to the streets in dozens of cities across the island, demanding freedom and basic subsistence resources. In response, the totalitarian regime resorted to two immediate measures of force: direct violence against protesters – which included beatings of women and children, torture and firearms shooting – and disconnection from the Internet. Already the dead, wounded and imprisoned are accumulating, although, precisely because of the computer blackout imposed by the dictatorship, it is not yet possible to offer the exact number of victims.
In this third millennium, providing the Cuban population with unfiltered Internet is like, in other areas or times, saving a country from an epidemic. The great epidemic that Cubans suffer is censorship, the impossibility of coordinating freely, without being spied on by the regime in power or suffering from technological blackouts. Rest assured, dear friends, that in a future free Cuba, Cubans will know how to thank your inventiveness and generosity with the emphasis that an effort of such extraordinary dimension deserves.
