Cuban Peers Dispute Ted Cruz’s Father’s Story of Fighting for Castro
Source: New York Times
Cuban Peers Dispute Ted Cruzs Fathers Story of Fighting for Castro
By JASON HOROWITZ
NOV. 9, 2015
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The school records of Rafael Cruz from 1954, when he was about 15 years old. Stories from his upbringing in Cuba, retold by Mr.
Cruz and by his son, who is running for president, have hooked Republican audiences. Credit Lisette Poole for The New York Times
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MATANZAS, Cuba Since he was a boy, Senator Ted Cruz has said, all he wanted to do was fight for liberty a yearning that he says was first kindled when he heard his fathers tales of fighting as a rebel leader in Cuba in the 1950s, throwing firebombs, running guns and surviving torture.
Those stories, retold by Mr. Cruz and by his father, Rafael, have hooked Republican audiences and given emotional power to the message that the Texas senator is pushing as a contender for the partys presidential nomination. In their telling, the fathers experience in Cuba when the country was swept up by the charismatic young Fidel Castro, only to see him become a repressive Communist dictator becomes a parable for the sons nightmarish vision of government overreach under President Obama.
But the family narrative that has provided such inspirational fire to Mr. Cruzs speeches, debate performances and a recently published memoir is, his fathers Cuban contemporaries say, an embroidered one.
The elder Mr. Cruz, 76, recalls a vivid moment at a watershed 1956 battle in Santiago de Cuba, when he was with a hero of the revolution, Frank País, just hours before he was killed in combat.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/10/us/politics/cuban-peers-dispute-ted-cruzs-fathers-story-of-fighting-for-castro.html?_r=0
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flamingdem
(39,313 posts)in the untruths category!
forest444
(5,902 posts)ornotna
(10,803 posts)forest444
(5,902 posts)A real sinvergüenza, as our friends south of the border say.
No wonder Paul Singer, the vulture fund TARP baby, loves him.
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roguevalley
(40,656 posts)US soil, why did the elder cruz go to Canada instead?
DhhD
(4,695 posts)do not believe in the Second Coming of Christ like Evangelicals do. They believe in setting up God's Kingdom with themselves in charge. The Elder anointed his son Ted governing over the Seven Hills. Teddy is now running for President of the United States that he has already tried to shut down. The Texas Senator and his wife want to rule over North America so Teddy has already told us what 5 US Departments, that he will begin with. Cruz talked about it last night at the Nov 2015 GOP Primary Debates.
keithbvadu2
(36,829 posts)for his heroic deeds fighting for the communists?
DhhD
(4,695 posts)http://samuel-warde.com/2015/10/ted-cruz-lashes-out-plays-the-victim-tells-8-lies/
http://crooksandliars.com/blue-texan/new-study-shows-ted-cruz-r-tx-congress-
A full 54 percent of Ted Cruz's statements have been rated "false" or "pants on fire" by PolitiFact. Another 20 percent are only "half true." That's 74 percent of Cruz's statements failing the truth test.
We're used to politicians lying to us, of course. But the frequency of Cruz's lies is actually staggering. Compare Cruz's 74 percent lying rate with Rick Perry's 48 percent and John Cornyn's 56 percent. Cruz is in rarified with Michele Bachmann as one of this country's biggest political liars. Whenever Ted Cruz opens his mouth, there's a 3/4 chance he's lying.
NCjack
(10,279 posts)on entering the US military. In regard to liberty, Ted's sponsors already have ample -- the rich can do anything they want to in USA. So, now we don't need any help from Ted.
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)Oh the stories they tell of old Cuba.