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Jose Garcia

(3,556 posts) Fri Feb 28, 2020, 09:53 AM Feb 2020

Miami to hold 'anti-Communist' concert after Sanders defends Castro regime [View all]

Miami will hold an “anti-Communist” concert in April in response to Democratic presidential front-runner Sen. Bernie Sanders’ defense of Fidel Castro’s authoritarian regime in Cuba, according to a report.

“Our city represents the stories of countless individuals who have risked their lives to flee communism,” Mayor Francis Suarez said, mentioning Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela, the Miami Herald reported on Monday.

“Each and every life that has fled communism has proven how the will to pursue democracy and freedom, even in the face of oppression, can never be suppressed or silenced.”

In an interview Sunday on CBS News’ “60 Minutes,” Sanders praised Castro’s literacy efforts when he took over Cuba in 1959.

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Miami to hold 'anti-Communist' concert after Sanders defends Castro regime [View all] Jose Garcia Feb 2020 OP

Didn't see that coming Rorey Feb 2020 #1

We've so lost Fla. if Sanders gets our nomination. brush Feb 2020 #47

Geez. what the fu8** is wrong with people. riversedge Feb 2020 #2

What people? Cha Feb 2020 #50

And the Red Scare returns... DanTex Feb 2020 #3

It's not a "red scare", how can you say that about these people. Some of them LIVED in Cuba.... George II Feb 2020 #7

i still remember the young cuban girl who immigrated to our town..my age.. samnsara Feb 2020 #12

I knew several Cuban refugees back in the 1970s that I became close friends with..... George II Feb 2020 #13

Thank you George Just_Vote_Dem Feb 2020 #28

Of course you tell yourself that. it can often be difficult to think beyond a juicy t-shirt slogan LanternWaste Feb 2020 #32

They will beat that drum all the way to Election Day and mix in some bucolic_frolic Feb 2020 #4

All those filthy rich who ran out of Cuba when Castro Farmer-Rick Feb 2020 #5

Must have been a lot of filthy rich people in Cuba before Castro Jose Garcia Feb 2020 #6

Sometimes the things people say about things they know little about make me shake my head. George II Feb 2020 #9

+++ This is the very reason why Sanders will lose Floida in the primary and General Election if he still_one Feb 2020 #51

I never wrote ONLY the filthy rich. Cuba was a brutal dictatorship filled with corruption and abuse. Farmer-Rick Feb 2020 #15

Here are some of those "filthy rich" that you speak of.... George II Feb 2020 #8

And Batista was better? Farmer-Rick Feb 2020 #18

Yes, Batista was better. IluvPitties Feb 2020 #19

I can't believe you wrote that. Farmer-Rick Feb 2020 #25

Castro was worse: George II Feb 2020 #30

What Rummel counted in Democide were ALL deaths even those due to poverty, bad healthcare or in jail Farmer-Rick Feb 2020 #34

I thought Sanders was raving about their healthcare system. George II Feb 2020 #45

You got to remember, when people starve to death under a non-socialist regime... ck4829 Feb 2020 #59

I can't believe he said that either. brutus smith Feb 2020 #31

OMG! - people suffered badly under Batista - he turned Cuba into a police state womanofthehills Feb 2020 #35

And Fidel and his cronies did not do just that IluvPitties Feb 2020 #48

Better? How? If Batista was truly "better", maybe he wouldn't have been ousted in the first place ck4829 Feb 2020 #58

Cubans under Batista were not leaving in droves. IluvPitties Feb 2020 #60

He must have been pretty bad to have been toppled by a sham ck4829 Feb 2020 #61

The cure was worse than the illness itself. IluvPitties Feb 2020 #63

It wasn't just the so-called filthy rich who left Vogon_Glory Feb 2020 #14

Batista and a ruined Nation is why people fled. AND I never said ONLY the filthy rich Farmer-Rick Feb 2020 #20

Tell that to all Cubans who have perished trying to be free from IluvPitties Feb 2020 #49

Hello - maybe they left Cuba because our embargos left them without basic necessities womanofthehills Feb 2020 #37

Isn't it pretty to think so? n/t Vogon_Glory Feb 2020 #54

What about those who are still leaving Cuba? HarlanPepper Feb 2020 #16

Well, the wealth fled. The US has had sanction against the country for decades. Farmer-Rick Feb 2020 #21

Uh huh HarlanPepper Feb 2020 #22

Answer to what exactly? Farmer-Rick Feb 2020 #26

People are still leaving Cuba because of our stupid embargos womanofthehills Feb 2020 #38

Righhht HarlanPepper Feb 2020 #44

OK com**** awesomerwb1 Feb 2020 #53

WTF? showblue22 Feb 2020 #24

Do you really think Batista was better? Farmer-Rick Feb 2020 #27

I like how a lot of those filthy rich converted cars to boats and lost weight to look hungry. n/t zackymilly Feb 2020 #39

The Castro stigma will be difficult to shake. Dems need to nominate oasis Feb 2020 #10

So saying that Castro was great for education and health care - is a horrible thing to say womanofthehills Feb 2020 #40

Education/indoctrination. Who would know better than those who fled oasis Feb 2020 #42

oh great!! samnsara Feb 2020 #11

Bahahaha HarlanPepper Feb 2020 #17

Thanks, Bernie. AGeddy Feb 2020 #23

I wish they would hold it before our primary. William769 Feb 2020 #29

iirc they tried this when Bill Clinton returned Elian Gozaiel to his father tirebiter Feb 2020 #46

Really nice to see DUers cheering on McCarthyism ibegurpard Feb 2020 #33

Batista was bad enough for the CIA to hire Fidel to overthrow him tirebiter Feb 2020 #36

I've been reading these threads on and off for a few days now... Act_of_Reparation Feb 2020 #43

Wake me up when there's a communist running for office. Act_of_Reparation Feb 2020 #41

it dosent matter if Sanders is a communist or socialist evertonfc Feb 2020 #52

And some of the remarks here show Vogon_Glory Feb 2020 #57

Reminds me of "Rock Against Communism." David__77 Feb 2020 #55

GusanoFest 2020! samir.g Feb 2020 #56

Saurez is a repugh. Of course he would put on such a concert. Blue_true Feb 2020 #62

For this thread Gothmog Mar 2020 #64