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Throughout her MSNBC show on Thursday from Panama at the Summit of the Americas, host Andrea Mitchell wrung her hands over the Obama administration actually trying to stand up to a Latin American dictator: "...there are other issues here, including recent sanctions by the U.S. against Venezuela, which have really upset the Cubans and a lot of America's close allies here, Costa Rica and Colombia and others, who are not happy about the wording of that sanctioning of Venezuela, Cuba's closest ally."
NBC White House correspondent Chris Jansing agreed: "...the Obama administration looked at seven Venezuelan officials and put them on that list. And they said, 'Look, these are people who have done human rights abuses.' A lot of people saw that as a bad move, something that, at least the timing of it, couldn't have been worse..."