[Brown Deer]

Ted's father, Rafael Bienvenido Cruz fought alongside Fidel Castro's forces to overthrow Cuba's U.S.-backed dictator, Fulgencio Batista.

[svcw]

Apparently, you have know idea what happened after that.

[NFHale]

“...Ted’s father,...”

So....he’s ineligible because of the sins of his father?? A guy who, for all intents and purposes has been an exemplary American for almost all of his life?

C’mon... A LOT of people believed in Castro before they realized he was communist piece of sh*t.

[kabumpo]

First of all, there is no documentation that Rafael Cruz ever fought for or against anyone.
Second, it is ridiculous to call Batista a dictator in the context of Fidel Castro’s five decade reign of terror. Furthermore, there had been elections in Cuba in 1958 and a new president had been elected.
Some dictator.

[xzins]

“I believe that there is no country in the world including any and all the countries under colonial domination, where economic colonization, humiliation and exploitation were worse than in Cuba, in part owing to my country’s policies during the Batista regime. I approved the proclamation which Fidel Castro made in the Sierra Maestra, when he justifiably called for justice and especially yearned to rid Cuba of corruption. I will even go further: to some extent it is as though Batista was the incarnation of a number of sins on the part of the United States. Now we shall have to pay for those sins. In the matter of the Batista regime, I am in agreement with the first Cuban revolutionaries. That is perfectly clear.”

— U.S. President John F. Kennedy, interview with Jean Daniel, 24 October 1963[23]

[LucyT]

Ted's father, Rafael Bienvenido Cruz fought alongside Fidel Castro's forces to overthrow Cuba's U.S.-backed dictator, Fulgencio Batista.

See link at # 28.

Thanks, Brown Deer.