To promote a peaceful transition to a Cuba that respects human rights
and political and economic freedoms
Rebuttal to Senator Bernie Sanders statements on Castro regime in Cuba, and praise for Communist China
Over the past two days Senator Bernie Sanders has defended past statements supportive of the Castro regime, and doubled down also praising Communist China. This should be cause for concern, and for setting the record straight.
Havana, Cuba 2020
Castro's communist regime destroyed Cuba and today it is a place where a balcony falls and kills three little girls, Cubans are not surprised by the deaths, but that the news was able to make it past the censors. However, it is also important to remember that large numbers of Cubans resisted the dictatorship and paid a high price.
Senator Sanders argued in the 60 Minutes interview broadcast on February 23rd that the reason Cubans did not rise up against Castro in 1961 was because "he educated their kids, gave them health care, totally transformed the society, you know?" This wrong on two counts, Cubans did rise up and many were killed for doing so, and the above narrative erases this history.
Cubans did rise up against Castro.
Between 1960 and 1966 there was an insurgency in the mountains of the Escambray that fought the Castro regime made up mostly of farmers and Revolutionary Directorate rebels that had fought the Batista Regime demanding a democratic restoration. The dictatorship called it the "War against the Bandits." The guerrillas were eventually exterminated and the uprising was crushed by 1966, but the Castro regime had to obtain outside assistance to destroy the resistance, and they obtained it from hundreds of Soviet counterinsurgency "advisors." It was described by Mary O'Grady in The Wall Street Journal in 2017 as a "Soviet cleansing."
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