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Tuesday, February 25, 2020

For Bernie Sanders, Nicaraguan human rights came second to Sandinista power

His attitudes toward Cuba are generating Monday's headlines, but Bernie Sanders's record on another communist authoritarian state, Nicaragua, might be even more problematic for the 2020 Democratic presidential front-runner.

Where Sanders supported the Castro regime with words, he spent the 1980s providing active logistical and moral support to the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua. Sanders and his supporters present this effort as simply humanitarian in nature — as support to an impoverished nation rising from the ashes of an authoritarian dictatorship.

But that's not the true story.

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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Sanders, Brennan and the others in Politics have never changed from their Communist beliefs and actions.