Sanders Defends His Praise of Castro’s Literacy Programs
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Democratic front-runner Bernie Sanders on Monday defended comments he made to CBS’s “60 Minutes” praising Fidel Castro for literacy programs he introduced in Cuba.
“There were a lot of folks in Cuba at that point who were illiterate. He formed the literacy brigade,” Sanders said at a CNN town hall in Charleston, South Carolina. Castro, he added, “went out and they helped people learn to read and write. You know what, I think teaching people to read and write is a good thing.”