He praised a literacy program. Are you anti-literacy? Florida might just be.
That is the talking point you are going with? Hitler pulled Germany out of a massive depression, I guess he wasn't all bad.
He said a lot more:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhpVAkBDg5oAt no point in that video did he praise violence other than the overthrow of an actual dictator. He praised food programs, land programs, youth programs, mass transit and consistently showed disdain for authoritarian and totalitarian rule.
Its about nuance. Every country has bad things. The US has tortured and killed millions.
Really doesn't matter what he said in the world of politics, its what the people think he said and understand that he said. A large deal of people think that Bernie was praising the regime as a whole, which he wasn't.
I still don't think it makes sense to praise the Cubans in anyway, because while they may have been educating the people -- it didn't change the fact that the regime was a horrid one and praising them at all is going to enrage a large deal of Americans -- especially Cuban democrats (especially in Florida)