Whereas, on February 23, 2020, during a 60 Minutes interview aired on CBS, Senator Bernie Sanders refused to condemn the Communist dictatorship of Fidel Castro in Cuba outright and expressed support for the literacy and education policies of the dictatorship; Whereas, on February 24, 2020, during a televised town hall in Charleston, South Carolina, Senator Bernie Sanders defended his remarks praising the literacy and education policies of the Castro dictatorship in Cuba; Whereas, on February 25, 2020, during the Democratic Presidential debate in Charleston, South Carolina, Senator Bernie Sanders further stated: Cuba made progress on education and when dictatorships, whether it is the Chinese or the Cubans do something good, you acknowledge that ; Whereas the literacy and education policy of the tyrannical Castro dictatorship served to indoctrinate the Cuban people with Marxist-Communist ideology and anti-United States sentiment; Whereas the objective of the Castro regime’s literacy and education policies was to promote loyalty and reverence for Fidel Castro above all else; Whereas Fidel Castro and the Communist Party of Cuba blocked access to independent sources of information and imposed outright censorship of books, libraries, and educational sources; Whereas Cubans who resisted Communist indoctrination by Fidel Castro and his regime risked human rights abuses including violence, imprisonment, and execution; Whereas most Cubans indoctrinated by the regime’s education system were forced to work for the state; Whereas the revolution led by Fidel Castro in Cuba in 1959 started 60 years of an ongoing dictatorship, systemic human rights abuses, and a lack of basic freedoms of press, religion, assembly, and association that continue to this day under the Communist oppression of Raul Castro and his puppet, Miguel Diaz-Canel; Whereas by the early 1960’s Fidel Castro held as many as 60,000 political prisoners; Whereas killings ordered by Fidel Castro are estimated to be as high as 17,000