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In these speeches, Cruz sometimes admits — with disbelief — that he once supported Fidel Castro’s revolution. “I started speaking at different rotary clubs around Austin, Texas — in favor of Castro! I still thought he was the savior of the country,” he told FreedomWorks, a conservative group, in 2013. Local news articles and documents from the late 1950s offer a clearer picture of the days of Cruz as a young man, then a believer in the revolution and a visible college activist. On Jan. 8, 1959, Fidel Castro rode victoriously into Havana. The country’s dictator, Batista, had fled a...

Rafael Cruz, a Christian minister, speaker and the father of GOP presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, is calling Christians and their leaders to get involved politically or face the fact that it will be the "wicked electing the wicked." Cruz's father, whose new book, "A Time for Action: Empowering the Faithful to Reclaim America," addresses the issue, was interviewed by Glenn Beck on a recent radio program. He pointed to GOP front-runner Donald Trump's presentation of himself as an evangelical Christian. "If Christians just do what they're supposed to do biblically, the whole game changes," Rafael Cruz told Beck....