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Sanders on authoritarian governments
Senator Bernie Sanders stated that his opinion on Cuban leadership was similar to that of Barack Obama. "When dictatorships, whether it is Chinese or the Cubans do something good, you acknowledge that, but you don't have to trade love letters with them," Sanders said at the CBS News debate in South Carolina.