Two House Democrats from South Florida are pushing back at Bernie Sanders, the front-runner for their party’s presidential nomination, over comments he made praising elements of Cuba’s communist regime.
In a 60 Minutes interview aired on Sunday, the 78-year-old Vermont senator said “it’s unfair to simply say everything is bad” about the late Fidel Castro’s regime. Though Sanders said he was very much “opposed to the authoritarian nature of Cuba,” he highlighted the literacy program Castro implemented.
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