Newsflash: in 1957 you didn’t need an “exit permit” to leave Cuba. Despite the Batista “dictatorship” Cuba was a free country in which people could come and go as they please. In 1957 it was common for middle-class Cubans to take a ferry to Florida for a day of shopping. There were also opposition parties and a free press - including a communist newspaper that had its own radio station.
The information about Cruz’s alleged arrest, etc. has never been verified in any way, shape or form. We scream and yell about lack of proof in Obama’s biography, and yet we are not applying the same standard to the Cruz legend. And I mean legend as a collorary of Moscow Rules.
I like Cruz, but I don’t like the lies he is telling - or allowing to be told - about his father. Rubio did the same thing.
Neither has it been DISproven in any way, shape or form.
Newsflash: in 2013 on FR, it is not considered good form to denigrate a true conservative patriot in every sense of the word (Rafael Cruz), by making unsubstantiated allegations about him or his son and wrongly calling them both 'liars'.
Who's really telling a lie?
Cruz has openly said that he got a permit from the Batista regime in Cuba to come to the US. He also said that he fought on Castro’s side prior to that in the early phase of that revolution when he was a teenager. He said he didn’t know Castro was a communist.
But, John F Kennedy also said he was fooled by Castro.
The elder Cruz came to the US, attended college, got married, had kids.
I don’t think there’s anything hidden. The only problem really is that Cruz wasn’t “famous” until recently and no one worried about who his parents were.