During his rise to political prominence, Sen. Marco Rubio frequently repeated a compelling version of his family\u2019s history that had special resonance in South Florida. He was the \u201cson of exiles,\u201d he told audiences, Cuban Americans forced off their beloved island after \u201ca thug,\u201d Fidel Castro, took power.<\/p>\n
But a review of documents \u2014 including naturalization papers and other official records \u2014 reveals that the Florida Republican\u2019s account embellishes the facts. The documents show that Rubio\u2019s parents came to the United States and were admitted for permanent residence more than two-and-a-half years before Castro\u2019s forces overthrew the Cuban government and took power on New Year\u2019s Day 1959.<\/p>\n
The supposed flight of Rubio\u2019s parents has been at the core of the young senator\u2019s political identity, both before and after his stunning tea-party-propelled victory in last year\u2019s Senate election. Rubio \u2014 now considered a prospective 2012 Republican vice presidential candidate and a possible future presidential contender \u2014 mentions his parents in the second sentence of the official biography on his Senate Web site. It says that Mario and Oriales Rubio \u201ccame to America following Fidel Castro\u2019s takeover.\u201d And the 40-year-old senator with the boyish smile and prom-king good looks has drawn on the power of that claim to entrance audiences captivated by the rhetorical skills of one of the more dynamic stump speakers in modern American politics.<\/p>\n
The real story of his parents\u2019 migration appears to be a more conventional immigrant narrative, a couple who came to the United States seeking a better life. In the year they arrived in Florida, the future Marxist dictator was in Mexico plotting a quixotic return to Cuba.<\/p>\n
Rubio\u2019s office confirmed Thursday that his parents arrived in the United States in 1956 but noted that \u201cwhile they were prepared to live here permanently, they always held out the hope and the option of returning to Cuba if things improved.\u201d They returned to Cuba several times after Castro came to power to \u201cassess the situation with the hope of eventually moving back,\u201d the office said in a statement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Yeah, right.<\/p>\n
In 1956, Castro was in exile in Mexico until December 2.<\/p>\n
His “revolution” was little more than a quixotic joke in 1956.<\/p>\n
His parents ditched Cuba in 1956 because they did not want to live there any more.<\/p>\n
Lame\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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