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Print The emergence of the first mass protests in more than 60 years in Cuba over endemic poverty and a botched response to the COVID-19 pandemic led rather predictably to a wave of support for the Havana regime from some on the political left. The fact that Cuba has free if often mediocre health care buys it goodwill among the many frustrated with the U.S. health system. So does the fact that the 1959 revolution that brought the communist government to power was seen as a triumph over avaricious American quasi-colonialism in the Caribbean and Latin America. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, and Nikole Hannah-Jones, The New York Times Magazine journalist who created the 1619 Project, have long admired what they see as Cuba’s relative social equality.

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