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(38,687 posts) Mon Feb 24, 2020, 05:16 PM Feb 2020

Democratic lawmaker's reaction to Sanders' comments on Fidel Castro policy: 'Absolutely unacceptable

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"A Democratic congresswoman from Florida said Monday that Sen. Bernie Sanders' partial defense of Fidel Castro's Cuban revolution was "absolutely unacceptable."

"As the first South American immigrant member of Congress who proudly represents thousands of Cuban Americans, I find Senator Bernie Sanders' comments on Castro's Cuba absolutely unacceptable," Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell wrote in a pair of tweets.

"The Castro regime murdered and jailed dissidents, and caused unspeakable harm to too many South Florida families. To this day, it remains an authoritarian regime that oppresses its people, subverts the free press, and stifles a free society," she added.

In a "60 Minutes" interview that aired Sunday, Sanders, who is running for the Democratic presidential nomination, said "it's unfair to simply say everything is bad" about Castro's regime, noting that he's "very opposed to the authoritarian nature of Cuba."

"When Fidel Castro came into office, you know what he did? He had a massive literacy program. Is that a bad thing? Even though Fidel Castro did it?" the Vermont independent asked."

https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/24/politics/democratic-reaction-bernie-sanders-cuba-comment/index.html

I am flabbergasted by the stupidity of his statement.

'Vuelve aquí.' 'El alfabetismo...para todos.'

In 1987, Sanders said JFK made him nauseous; now he praises him in new ad - Jan. 16, 2020

"Presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders has launched a new ad praising John Fitzgerald Kennedy on Monday, despite in the past he had very harsh words about the former US president, to the point of saying that he "nauseated" him.

America chose to go to the moon not because it was easy, but because it was hard, Kennedy argued in footage included in the 30-second clip, where Sanders states that the slain leader knew that the US gives its best before significant challenges and not small ones.

However, Sanders did not always seem so impressed with the leader's record. In an interview with a university newspaper a little over 30 years ago, on the contrary, the Democratic Vermont Senator even said that Kennedy's position about the Cuban Revolution appalled him.

"President Kennedy was elected while I was at the University of Chicago, that was 1960. I remember being physically nauseated by his speech and that doesn't happen very often. He debated Nixon on Cuba. And their hatred for the Cuban revolution, both of them, was so strong," Sanders said in a 1987 interview to Gadfly, a student newspaper at the University of Vermont."

https://www.jpost.com/American-Politics/In-1987-Sanders-said-JFK-made-him-nauseous-now-he-praises-him-in-new-ad-614335

Disparaging repressive authoritarian regime's ascent to power makes him nauseous, disparaging the Democratic Party and its leaders, not so much.

Cuba: Fidel Castro’s Record of Repression

"During Castro’s rule, thousands of Cubans were incarcerated in abysmal prisons, thousands more were harassed and intimidated, and entire generations were denied basic political freedoms. Cuba made improvements in health and education, though many of these gains were undermined by extended periods of economic hardship and by repressive policies.

“As other countries in the region turned away from authoritarian rule, only Fidel Castro’s Cuba continued to repress virtually all civil and political rights,” said José Miguel Vivanco, Americas director at Human Rights Watch. “Castro’s draconian rule and the harsh punishments he meted out to dissidents kept his repressive system rooted firmly in place for decades.”

https://www.hrw.org/news/2016/11/26/cuba-fidel-castros-record-repression

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