2/26/2020, 8:11 am
Fidel Castro's Cuban revolution wasn't entirely bad, Democratic presidential front runner Bernie Sanders said in a 60 Minutes interview that aired Sunday night.
Note: many of the photo's in this post were taken from posts by Alberto de la Cruz on Babalublog.com
Crazy Cubans escaping utopia
“We're very opposed to the authoritarian nature of Cuba, but, you know,it's simply unfair to say everything is bad,” Sanders said in an interview with journalist Anderson Cooper.
The comments — sure to rile Cuban exiles in Miami and escalate arguments from moderate Democrats that Sanders is too far left to beat President Donald Trump — came in response to questions about remarks Sanders ,a self-described Democratic socialist, made in a 1980s interview.
During that interview, a clip of which aired on CBS Sunday night, Sanders counted healthcare and education among the reasons that the Cuban people didn't rise up and overthrow Castro after his 1959 revolution.
The good old days of the Clinton administration
“You know, when Fidel Castro came into office, you know what he did? He had a massive literacy program,” Sanders told Cooper. “Is that a bad thing? Even though Fidel Castro did it?”
Sanders has a long history of praising left-leaning authoritarian leaders in Latin America.
In 1985, Sanders met Nicaraguan leader Daniel Ortega and called him a “very impressive guy.” Ortega recently banned Nicaragua's largest newspaper from buying ink and newsprint. Sanders also visited Cuba in the 1980s, praising Castro's social programs while expressing concern about the government's jailing of political dissidents.
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This photo was taken in Cuba as they burn a pile of tires for fuel. What are Greta's thoughts on this?
I was speaking with someone who said they want to go to Cuba to see the old cars. To them, Cuba is nothing more than a Disney Theme Park.
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Note: many of the photo's in this post were taken from posts by Alberto de la Cruz on Babalublog.com
Crazy Cubans escaping utopia
“We're very opposed to the authoritarian nature of Cuba, but, you know,it's simply unfair to say everything is bad,” Sanders said in an interview with journalist Anderson Cooper.
The comments — sure to rile Cuban exiles in Miami and escalate arguments from moderate Democrats that Sanders is too far left to beat President Donald Trump — came in response to questions about remarks Sanders ,a self-described Democratic socialist, made in a 1980s interview.
During that interview, a clip of which aired on CBS Sunday night, Sanders counted healthcare and education among the reasons that the Cuban people didn't rise up and overthrow Castro after his 1959 revolution.
The good old days of the Clinton administration
“You know, when Fidel Castro came into office, you know what he did? He had a massive literacy program,” Sanders told Cooper. “Is that a bad thing? Even though Fidel Castro did it?”
Sanders has a long history of praising left-leaning authoritarian leaders in Latin America.
In 1985, Sanders met Nicaraguan leader Daniel Ortega and called him a “very impressive guy.” Ortega recently banned Nicaragua's largest newspaper from buying ink and newsprint. Sanders also visited Cuba in the 1980s, praising Castro's social programs while expressing concern about the government's jailing of political dissidents.
This photo was taken in Cuba as they burn a pile of tires for fuel. What are Greta's thoughts on this?
I was speaking with someone who said they want to go to Cuba to see the old cars. To them, Cuba is nothing more than a Disney Theme Park.
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