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Oops, Rubio embellished Cuban exile history

   October 21, 2011


The Washington Post has caught U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (Fl-Rep) embellishing his parents’ immigration from Cuba to Miami.

To fire up his conservative base, Rubio likes to tell how his parents were forced off their beloved island after “a thug,” Fidel Castro, took power. Painting pictures of a poor family fleeing in desperation (think Havana New Year’s Eve scene in “The Godfather, Part II), Rubio plays on the emotions of his listeners.

Nice story, if it were true. The Post has found documents that show Rubio’s parents came to the United States and were admitted for permanent residence more than 2 1/2 years before Castro’s forces overthrew the Cuban government and took power on New Year’s Day 1959. Oops

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