During Tuesday’s Democratic presidential debate, Pete Buttigieg took issue with Bernie Sanders’ qualified praise for Fidel Castro’s literacy and healthcare programs in communist Cuba.
During Tuesday’s Democratic presidential debate, Pete Buttigieg took issue with Bernie Sanders’s qualified praise for Fidel Castro’s literacy and health care programs in communist Cuba.
“I have condemned authoritarianism, whether it is the people in Saudi Arabia, that the United States government has loved for years, Cuba, Nicaragua, authoritarianism of any stripe is bad,” Sanders responded. “But that is different than saying the governments occasionally do things that are good.
During Sanders’ appearance on “60 Minutes” this past Sunday, Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist, was asked about his past statements about Cuba’s communist dictatorship.
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