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      Cuba and Bernie Sanders: Analysis of the Online Media Discourse at a Crucial Moment of the 2020 Democratic Nomination Race

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            This paper examines the way Cuba was represented in noticeable online media in connection with Bernie Sanders’ aspirations to become the Democratic nominee for the 2020 presidential election. Traditional anticommunism and a historical one-sided view on Cuba in the press, as well as widespread conceptual confusion about “socialism” in US society, converged against Sanders over the run-up to the nomination, especially at a crucial moment in February 2020 when he was the frontrunner and was interviewed by CBS. The paper analyses the reaction of the online press to Sanders’ comments on Cuba during the interview, but also considers other US press reports during 2019 as well as specialised literature on the topic. Discourse Analysis parameters are brought forward to highlight ideological discourse representations in the media.

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            Yoan Karell Acosta González
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            Journal ID (doi): 10.2307/j50005551
            Journal ID (jcode): intejcubastud
            Title: International Journal of Cuban Studies
            Publisher: Pluto Journals
            ISSN: 1756-3461
            ISSN: 1756-347X
            Publication date (Print): 1 July 2021
            Volume: 13
            Issue: 1 ( doiID: 10.13169/intejcubastud.13.issue-1 )
            Pages: 43-66
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            Associate Professor and member of the Group of Semantic and Discourse Analysis Studies of the School of Foreign Languages at the University of Havana and member of the Group of Complexity
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            DOI: 10.13169/intejcubastud.13.1.0043
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            ScienceOpen disciplines: Literary studies,Arts,Social & Behavioral Sciences,History,Cultural studies,Economics
            Keywords: socialism,Cuba,Discourse Analysis,Bernie Sanders,online press

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