In October 2011, newspapers reported that Rubio’s many previous statements that his parents were forced to leave Cuba in 1959, after Fidel Castro came to power, were false.
His parents were economic immigrants who left Cuba in 1956, during the Batista dictatorship. They went back after Castro took over, but left again.
His brother in law and close political supporter, Orlando Cicilia, was convicted as part of a drug-trafficking ring that paid off cops and sold cocaine by the kilo. Members of that ring had murdered and dismembered a government informer. Cicilia was sentenced to twenty-five years in prison, but somehow got out early.
In October 2011, newspapers reported that Rubio’s many previous statements that his parents were forced to leave Cuba in 1959, after Fidel Castro came to power, were false.
His parents were economic immigrants who left Cuba in 1956, during the Batista dictatorship. They went back after Castro took over, but left again.
His brother in law and close political supporter, Orlando Cicilia, was convicted as part of a drug-trafficking ring that paid off cops and sold cocaine by the kilo. Members of that ring had murdered and dismembered a government informer. Cicilia was sentenced to twenty-five years in prison, but somehow got out early.