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Critics slam de Blasio’s trips to Cuba, Nicaragua

Revelatioź©²ns about Bill de Blasioā€™s jaunts to communist Cuba and Nicaragua arenā€™t sitting well with those who battled ā€” and fled ā€” those countriesā€™ repressive regimes.

ā€œI think he ought to be quiet about that,ā€ said retš“°ired US Army Maj. Gen. John Singlaub, who aided anti-communist guerrillas in Nicaragua as part of the 1980s Iran-Contra affair.

ā€œPeople who supā™‘ported the Sandinistas were doing so in violation of the announcšŸøed policy of the United States.ā€

Tš’Ŗhe Democratic public advocate and mayoral front-runner was an ā€œadmirerā€ of the communist Sandinistas and traveled to Nicaragua at the age of 26 to distribute food and medicine in 1988, The New York Times reported Monday.

A member of the National Association of Cuban-American Women also blastā–Øed de Blasioā€™s honeymoon in Cuba.

ā€œFidel Castro killed a lot of people in my counšŸ…try in the ā€™60s and ā€™70s. When you are against him, he will do something agšŸŒ„ainst you,ā€ she said, speaking on condition of anonymity because she still has relatives living in the nation.

Republican mayoral candidate Joe Lhota said de Blasioā€™s globe-hopping to countries battling the US showed ā€œitā€™s pretty obvious we think very, very differentš“„§ly about the way the governments of the world should work.ā€

ā€œI believe actionšŸ’ƒs takā™›en like the Sandinistas, who were fighting Americans as well as capitalism, was absolutely not the right thing to do during the Cold War,ā€ he said.

The former MTA chief also noted that de Blasio ā€œin his own šŸ„€words, he called himself a democratic socialist.ā€

Independence Party šŸ’žcandidate Adolfo CarriĆ³n went even further, labeling de Blasio a ā€œradical without a clue.ā€

De Blasio called his opponentsā€™ criticisms ā€œa right-wing tactic,ā€ saying, ā€œThe reason I got involved in this work from the beginning was I saw inequalities, I saw ušŸ…˜nfairness.ā€