The Left's Appalling Whitewashing of Castro's Legacy

The Daily Signal
Nov. 28, 2016
Good morning from Washington, D.C. Mike Gonzalez reminds the left that Fidel Castro was a moral monster—and no, his leftist ideologies did not leave Cuba better off. Ana Quintana, whose own family fled Cuba, writes of how Castro's death doesn't change the current political reality of oppression in Cuba. Plus: Hans von Spakovsky on a sheriff's department fined for hiring only citizens, and Josh Siegel on what a President Trump could potentially change about U.S. refugee policy.
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The Left's Appalling Whitewashing of Castro's Legacy

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