Is Rubio Italian or Latin-American? I can’t tell by either his name or his appearance.
His parents are Cuban.
RE: Is Rubio Italian or Latin-American? I can’t tell by either his name or his appearance.
Brief backgrounder on Marco Rubio :
Rubio was born in Miami, Florida, the son of immigrants from Cuba. He is a Roman Catholic and is fluent in Spanish. His father was a bartender and his mother was a maid. Rubio lived in Las Vegas, Nevada from 1979 to 1985, though his family returned to Miami in the summer of 1985. Rubio attended South Miami Senior High School and graduated in 1989. He then attended Tarkio College for one year on a football scholarship from 1989 to 1990 before enrolling at Santa Fe Community College and the University of Florida. He received his B.S. from the University of Florida in 1993 and his J.D. Cum Laude from the University of Miami in 1996. While studying law, he interned for Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen.
Rubio is married to Jeanette Dousdebes Rubio, a former Miami Dolphins cheerleader (1997) of Colombian descent, and they have four children together: Amanda, Daniella, Anthony, and Dominick. Rubio and his family live in West Miami, Florida.
Rubio is AMERICAN.