Frontrunner Sanders Comments on Cuba
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On Sunday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said in an interview on “60 Minutes” that it is “unfair” to classify everything as being “bad” in Cuba under the rule of late Cuban leader Fidel Castro.
A left-leaning article by The Washington Post highlights that after becoming front-runner for the 2020 Democratic nomination with a resounding victory in the Nevada caucuses, Sanders was offering varying degrees of praise for Castro. The article states that Sanders steps over the line by emphasizing the good in what are otherwise brutal regimes, which he has done so in the past with Nicaraguan leader Daniel Ortega and the Soviet Union’s lower health-care costs.
The Hill published a centrist article stating that Sanders’ comments on Castro drew bipartisan pushback on Sunday night. While Florida Rep. Donna Shalala (D) said she hopes in the future Sanders will speak to her constituents before he praises tyrants like Fidel Castro, Rep. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) also said that Sanders is “wrong” about why people didn’t overthrow Castro.
New York Post published a right-leaning article reporting that Hillary Clinton’s “opposition research book” on Sanders from 2016 had a whole section on Sanders’ trip to Nicaragua and his support of the Sandinistas in 1985. The article also notes that Sanders and his wife honeymooned in the then USSR’s Yaroslavl.
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Bernie Sanders greets his new front-runner status with a greatest hit: praising Fidel Castro
Washington Post