Ted Cruz's father an early Fidel Castro revolutionary, memoir claims
Ted Cruz's father an early Fidel Castro revolutionary, memoir claims
Texas senator writes that father Rafael Cruz led a group of insurgents staging a sabotage against the Cuban dictator Batista and was eventually tortured
Associated Press in Austin, Texas
Saturday 27 June 2015 15.44 EDT
Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz’s father was a 1950s Cuban revolutionary who longed to slip into the island’s eastern mountains and join Fidel Castro’s guerrilla army.
At 17, Rafael Cruz led a group of insurgents staging urban sabotage against the Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. Cruz was eventually jailed and tortured, and upon his release wanted the underground to help him personally reach Castro’s camp in the Sierra Maestra highlands.
“My dad asked if he could join Castro in the mountains and keep fighting,” the firebrand Republican presidential candidate writes in his book, A Time For Truth, which will be released on Tuesday. “But he was told there was no way to get to the rebels.”
Instead, the elder Cruz bribed his way to a Cuban exit visa and headed to the University of Texas.
More:
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/27/ted-cruz-memoir-father-cuba-revolutionary-fidel-castro
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Rafael Cruz
Camilo Cienfuegos, Che Guevara, waiting for Rafael Cruz to arrive.
Camilo Cienfuegos, Che Guevara, wearing each other's hat, waiting for Rafael Cruz to arrive.
Camilo Cienfuegos, Che Guevara, still waiting.
"They had to struggle on without Rafael.
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Another student deferment?
Yeah, getting Dinner late was real Torture. 
