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Aug 2, 2020 • 3 tweets • 1 min read
Rep. Karen Bass just said that she was a naive 19 year old in visiting Cuba. However, in 2016, she praised Casto (a man who killed reporters and dissenters by the thousands) as "the passing of the Comandante en Jefe." He was the enemy of free speech and free press rights...
...Bizarrely, Bass told Chuck Todd that she did not use that as an enduring term but I was "expressing condolences" to people in Florida. However, she also said it was "a great loss to the people of Cuba.” Did she express condolences for the loss of "Dear Leader" in North Korea?
Bass could have spoken to those brave Cubans in prisons which are filled with reporters, dissents, and writers who fought for civil liberties. The "great loss" was not in Castro's passing but his denial of civil liberties for decades through a state system of torture and murder.

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