Friday, December 16, 2011

My Word: Marco Rubio: Here's the right story


November 03, 2011|By Bruce Stephenson
Marco Rubio embedded his politics in his family's history. The problem, of course, is Rubio misrepresented the facts. His parents did not flee a brutal communist dictatorship; they fled a brutal right wing dictatorship, one so corrupt with crony capitalism that it made communism palatable. Rubio is an American citizen because his parents embraced a nation with a thriving middle-class democracy, which begs the question: Does Rubio understand the riddle of his own history?
Fulgencio Batista held power for two decades before Castro's revolution. He was the stereotypical Latin American dictator: part gangster and megalomaniac, he embraced Florida mobster Meyer Lansky and American corporations with equal relish.

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