‘Nightly News’ Calls Cuban Defections a ‘Setback’ - Segment about Cuban circus romanticizes life under authoritarian socialist rule.

Who would have thought a third-world nation held back by the rule of a socialist dictator could be so much fun?

A report on the May 18 “NBC Nightly News” featured the Cuban National Circus, which lost 11 performers to defections when it toured abroad. Most times defections from authoritarian regimes are viewed as a good thing but NBC characterized them as a “setback.”

“Then late last year, when they were finally good enough to tour overseas, there was another setback: 11 performers, including most of the trapeze artists, defected,” NBC correspondent Mark Potter said.”*

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