Comments by "Valen Ron" (@valenrn8657) on "'Trump is the most dangerous president America has seen and will be defeated': Sanders" video.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/02/27/dear-bernie-sanders-you-cant-separate-cubas-social-policies-its-authoritarianism/
First, consider the issue of literacy in Cuba before Castro came along. Was pre-Castro Cuba a nation of illiterates, and Castro’s literacy campaign as great an accomplishment as Sanders avers? Not at all. A Cuban census from 1953 found that 77.9 percent of the island’s total population was already literate, and that in urban areas the literacy rate was 88.9 percent: among the highest in Latin America and higher than in some benighted rural counties in the United States. Seven years later, in 1960, according to data compiled at Oxford University, the literacy rate for the entire island was 79 percent.
So the scope of Castro’s 1961 literacy campaign, much admired by Sanders, is more myth than reality . Moreover, the image of pre-Castro Cuba as a primitive society rescued from poverty and illiteracy by a so-called revolution is a deceitful caricature, one brilliantly conceived by the Castro regime to make its brutality seem less offensive — merely “authoritarian” rather than monstrous.
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Bernie Sanders is repeating Castro's fake news.
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