This is a point I'm surprised the Cruz crowd didn't raise: Why would a guy who claimed to have left Cuba because of Castro belong to a group called Fair Play for Cuba? Oswald's excuse was that he was a marxist flake.
Posted on 12/01/2016 6:48:41 AM PST by Kaslin
To shed some light on the death of Fidel Castro, I did an interview with Senator Ted Cruz's father Rafael, who lived under the oppressive regime of the Cuban dictator.
Have you ever had experiences in which you felt as though your government was taking unfair advantage of you, and it seemed as though you had no power to do anything about it? Have you written your congressman, senator, or county commissioner several times and only received form-letter responses? I suppose that everyone has felt that way from time to time. On the other hand, after you've finished complaining, did you ever feel that your life was threatened? If not, you've never lived under a dictatorship.
As Americans, we take freedom for granted because we've always had it. That's why it's important for us to hear from those who have lived in places where freedom doesn't exist.
"I was 17 years old when I spoke out publicly against the corrupt regime of Fulgencio Batista," said Rafael Cruz, who was born in Cuba. As a result of his opposition to the brutal tactics being used against his people, he became a recipient of that brutality. Rafael was arrested, thrown in a cell, and repeatedly beaten by prison guards. "Every four hours, they'd come back in my cell to beat me again," he said. "The pain became so unbearable that I lost feeling in my arms and legs," he added reflectively. About a year later, with the help of his parents, he was able to flee the autocratic island and he found his way to Austin, Texas. Fearing that he might be robbed before he got away, his mother had sewn $100 into his underwear to give him a start in his new country.
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Oh No, This thread is going be fun :/
Let’s be honest.
He moved to Cuba to help usher in Castro’s regime and then he had buyer’s remorse.
From Battista to Castro...from bad to bad. Cuba is 50 years behind the times.
What gets me is the 99.5 literacy rate...cuz it's worse than the iron curtain...no one goes in and no one goes out.
Well it is simple. It is a mature authoritarian state were the need for uneducated masses to riot in the streets is over. So now the people do what they are told, and if the state says you are going to learn to read, then you are going to learn to read.
“He moved to Cuba to help usher in Castro’s regime and then he had buyer’s remorse.”
He was born in Cuba, he didn’t move there.
Rafael Jr. remembers life in his native Canada
Ted’s dad being interviewed by the surviving Grateful Dead guitarist? Interesting ...
What gets me is the 99.5% literacy rate with no proof for that number. It's called gray propaganda.
sounds too dangerous for Cuban govt to allow the people to know how to read ...
“He was born in Cuba, he didn’t move there.”
Rafael is supposed to have moved back to Cuba when Castro prevailed, after fleeing to the US.
Btw this is the story `Ted’ told. His aunt was a counterrevolutionary and fought against Castro.
Thrilling story, but who knows what to believe with the Cruz family.
el Cubano Cruz is a liar extraordinaire.
Rafael Cruz’s timeline from Cuba has so many red flags they could line the street for a Communist May Day Parade.
His stories and timeline conflicts with the other Cuban exiles of his era.
There was no need for his momma to sew money into his underwear. What a joke! He stole that lil story from reading about Operation Pedro Pan which was implemented for children late 1960-1962. He was not an orphan and likely came much earlier than he claims and was planted with family.
At the time of ‘Op Pedro-Pan, Rafael had already had a Cuban wife, Julia Garza, and two daughters. He had also somehow supposedly graduated UT Austin with a dual degree in Mathematics and Chem. Engineering. All this after arriving speaking zero English, in a university that required English proficiency for admission.
And Cuba was soooo bad he returned and stayed a while and missed a month or more of his Freshman year?
“That dog don’t hunt” and the rest of the story is equally full of holes.
Which eventually explains how Ted got a hand-up all expense paid Ivy League education with law degree and entree’ to the GWB administration.
A person is considered “literate” in Cuba if they can sign their name.
What was life like in New Orleans in early 63, Raffie?
During the 60’s & 70’s some of the upper echelon were sent to Moscow for higher education.
These days, those with a high school education don’t have a real hard time emigrating. In Cuba, the higher the degree of education, the harder it generally becomes to legally emigrate. When Cuba relaxed and allowed global travel for it’s physicians, they lost a lot of their brightest talent mainly to Spain, Florida and New York.
Lee Harvey Cruzwald never sued the Enquirer, did he?
This is a point I'm surprised the Cruz crowd didn't raise: Why would a guy who claimed to have left Cuba because of Castro belong to a group called Fair Play for Cuba? Oswald's excuse was that he was a marxist flake.
And, don't get caught reading that which is not regime-approved!
No he went and laid low awhile. Then he tried to come back out but many of us reminded him that we KNOW who and what he is and he went back into hiding. Until now when it is kind of incumbent upon him to speak about Cuba for awhile. But I’m never going to let go of this! He will never be free again!
‘A minister now I believe.’
Depends on the definition of ‘minister.’ Rafael never went to seminary, and he pastors no church, at which he could ‘minister.’
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