Communist Bill De Blasio New York City Mayor actually took his wife on a honeymoon in Cuba, back in 1994. I thought it was against U.S. Travel restrictions to travel to Cuba back in the ’90s, and you could get in trouble for that? Oh wait, De Blasio is a far left Communist, so he gets away with it. Of course. Apparently, New York City’s Communist De Blasio was also a fan of the socialist Sandinistas in Nicaragua.
Mr. de Blasio remained supportive of the Sandinistas, often referred to by their acronym, F.S.L.N., even after they lost power. “People who had shallow party sympathies with the F.S.L.N. pretty much dropped everything when they lost,” said Jane Guskin, a fellow activist in the solidarity group. “Bill wasn’t like that.”
He has remained interested in Latin America — he even honeymooned in Cuba (in violation of a United States travel ban). To this day, he speaks admiringly of the Sandinistas’ campaign, noting advances in literacy and health care. “They had a youthful energy and idealism mixed with a human ability and practicality that was really inspirational,” he said.