Given the times when he came to the US, I wonder what sort of things the official file on the elder Cruz is full of.
Makes me wonder, did we dodge a bullet of some kind when the anointing oil didn't pour and Cruz lost his bid for the presidency?
Do you know anyone with a Dad like that or anyone with a family history like that?
I've lived in a lot of places and met some unusual folks and I don't.
While snoopy people are asking for FOIA and getting hard copy of Cruz’s travel documents beginning in the 1950’s, others could be leaking old stuff.
My best guess was that he was a Castro neophyte loyalist planted there by Castro operatives within the USA. He was an admitted activist as photographed at UT. They would have possibly bribed Cruz into UT. Or the degree, itself, is ‘nontraditional.’ Cruz may have been used as an ‘asset’ by the agency for a short time and then dropped when no longer useful- likely a low-level player or unknowing character associated with nefarious others. Probably freaked out as the investigations continued and decided to head north- 3,000 miles.
In 1959- normal route to send a cuban boy on his own would have been to Miami. He would have been living with friends of friends or distant cousins from his town. Lots of Catholic church help, a single phone call would have plugged him in to a home. There are several colleges and universities in Miami to earn a math degree. Miami is “little Havana.”
Actually yes to your question. I have met with and read the interviews of some of Rafael’s generation who left Cuba ‘57-’61. They all claimed that Cuban operatives were responsible for jfk’s death. Whether it was retaliatory for Bay of Pigs or the long arm of Fidel, I don’t know. At the time, it seemed far-fetched, but who knows where the truth lies, I never was motivated to research the grassy knoll.