NBC’s Andrea Mitchell Lectures Detained Cuban Dissident on Benefits of Obama’s Cuba Visit

Curtis Houck | March 21, 2016
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NBC News chief foreign affairs correspondent/MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell continued to heap praise on President Obama’s decision for the U.S. to reestablish relations with Cuba to the point where she briefly lectured a recently detained Cuban dissident on Monday’s NBC Nightly News about the benefits of the President’s visit. 

Partway through her lead story on the newscast about the President’s first full day in Cuba, Mitchell lamented that the issue of human rights has been “an issue overshadowing the visit” and was on display when Cuban President Raul Castro grew visibly angry when CNN chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta asked him about political prisoners his country imprisons.

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