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Says. i'm going to fight for the people who need fighting for in this campaign, win or lose. >> let me go on to another topic you took -- you went out of your way to make sure. you were answering a moderator's question that senator sanders didn't. it was on the issue of venezuela. he was asked why you wouldn't refer to maduro as a dictator. bernie sanders went on to call him a tyrant. he didn't address the dictator question. let me play the fight. >> venezuela does not have free elections but still you refuse to call maduro a dictator. can you explain why? and what are the main differences bet...

Town hall with democratic presidential candidate bernie sanders wolf blitzer pressed senator sanders why won't you call maduro a dictator. is he? >> he's a corrupt dictator. he has a combination of an absolute dictatorship and a narco traffic state. he keeps generals around him in line by a combination of making them part of the narco trafficking and the moneys that proceed from it and at the same time by cuban security he has dividing the generals one against the other so they went think about creating a coup. there is no question he's corrupt. >> is it a mistake then for senator sanders not ...

Form of it will not only be better for the country but help him beat donald trump. >> senator bernie sanders. >> reporter: a self-described socialist warns against the leader and venezuela and declined to call maduro a dictator. >> why have you stopped short of calling maduro a dictator? >> well, he -- i think -- it's fair to say that the last election was undemocratic. but there are still democratic operations taking place in that country. >> reporter: that's just one take away from cnn's town hall with sanders. >> when i talk about democratic socialism, what i talk about are human rights and...

Severe economic mismanagement, failed social policies and corruption. showdown is a choice of between right and wrong. the maduro regime has decided to continue to starve its people. but, in the meantime, you have venezuelan armed forces who right now have the choice to side with the people that they committed to serving and allowing aid to come in. pete: something has to change for those forces to make a whole scale shift to the opposition. dictators don't give up their power voluntarily. think saddam hussein, think muammar qaddafi. because they don't have another option. so you know our lead...

President maduro a natural political ally of communist china and that is no surprise given that maduro rival the more moderate social democrat democrat who on why doe has declared himself interim president is more open to the west why don't has also vowed to examine the country's financial deals with china that's something that hasn't gone down too well in beijing but china has also traditionally taken a pragmatic approach two years ago chinese and quiet those people discussed what approach the opposition would take to existing financial agreements should they come to power some experts sugges...