“When Fidel Castro came into office, you know what he did? He had a massive literacy program.”
Bernie Sanders
Independent Senator from Vermont. In an interview on CBS News' "60 Minutes". Claim dated 23 Feb 2020.
PolitiFact rated thisMostly True
In short
Bernie Sanders (Independent Senator from Vermont) made this claim around 23 February 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 25 February 2020, 2 days later. Its rating was “Mostly True”.
Bernie Sanders has 49 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 6 of them false or fake, 35 misleading or mixed and 4 true.
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