McAuliffe Ducks Request to Meet Cuban Dissidents

One of the less comfortable parts of executive power is dealing with your unsavory peers – for Gov. Terry McAuliffe, in the middle of a three-day trip to Cuba, that currently means the Castro brothers.  With all the Russian megalomania and Iranian-backed terrorism and North Korean belligerence out there in the world, it is easy to forget just how rotten a regime Fidel Castro founded and bequeathed to his brother and current Cuban president Raul.  And this particular set of human rights abuses is happening closer to U.S. soil than Lee County is to Virginia Beach.

Gov. McAuffile is officially visiting to drum up business in the wake of reopened diplomatic relations between Cuba and America. Given his previous business record, maybe this is actually a CIA plot to tank the Cuban economy and overthrow the regime.  But it is more likely that McAuliffe is doing what politicians often do in foreign relations – place their constituents needs first.

The result, of course, is a stage-managed trip through whatever “Potemkin Villages” is when translated to in Spanish:

 

So far, so manufactured.  But Del.-elect Jason Miyares wasn’t satisfied following this script and decided to give the lovefest some much-needed grounding in the real world by making a simple request – that McAuffile meet with dissidents while in Cuba:

As Governor of Virginia, Terry McAuliffe holds the same seat as Thomas Jefferson, and as such he has a special responsibility during his Cuba trip to speak out on behalf of the timeless universal truths of his predecessor; the self-evident truths that ‘all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights’ including the Right of ‘Life, Liberty and the Pursuant of Happiness.

Nobody expects Terry McAuliffe to free the Cuban people, and actually meeting dissidents may have scuttled the trip.  Yet either 1) some kind of halfway decent statement about his hope for future improvement in the status of blah blah something something or 2) some kind of cogent statement about foreign policy being a federal thing would have shown a basic respect for the situation.  Instead, his office issued a predictably mealy-mouthed statement about how “the purpose of the Governor’s trip is to open new markets for Virginia products” and how that will “pave the way” for better relations.  (Just like it has with China, right?)

If I’m a Virginia winemaker, I’m glad for the marketing help and potential new customers.  And we should all be concerned with the fate of our fellow Virginians who are trying to run these kind of businesses.  But if his office demands pandering, it would have been nice for McAuliffe to follow to the spirit of Del.-elect Miyares’s message and salvage some dignity by trying to pander with a bit more subtlety.  He didn’t have to hand out pocket Constitutions to everyone he met – just try and show some awareness that its principles aren’t exclusively yearned for by Americans.

 

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