You’re correct. I hope her dad died before she campaigned for Obama and did not have to witness that.
Estefan fled Cuba with her family when Communist dictator Fidel Castro rose to power. Her father, Jos˜O Manuel Fajardo, had been a Cuban soldier and bodyguard of President Fulgencio Batista.
After coming to the United States, the elder Fajardo was recruited into the 2506 Brigade, a CIA-funded band of Cuban refugees that was involved in the unsuccessful 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion.
After President John F. Kennedy negotiated the release of the captured soldiers, Fajardo rejoined his family. He eventually joined the U.S. Army and served for two years in Vietnam.
Unsuccessful invasion because Kennedy backed out at the last moment on his pledge for air support.
Then he ransomed the POWs by using tax money to give the Castros 500 tractors which turned out to be high dollar bulldozers.