Posted on 04/23/2016 7:48:16 PM PDT by FR_addict
In these speeches, Cruz sometimes admits with disbelief that he once supported Fidel Castros 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 countrys dictator, Batista, had fled a week earlier. The next day, Rafael Cruz spoke to the Daily Texan, the student newspaper at UT-Austin.
The July 26 movement was started not by the lower classes but the cultured people of Cuba. People like lawyers, businessmen, men of education. And you know the Communists like to prey on the downtrodden, said Cruz, conversing freely in his native Spanish.
The July 26 movement is the name of the movement led by Castro that overthrow Batista. The name comes from an attack on the Santiago de Cuba army barracks on July 26, 1953.
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Meant to ping you to 100.
It means something doesn't make sense because it doesn't make sense to own a dog that doesn't hunt. A lie. IOW, the story Ted and his father is putting out doesn't follow or is a bunch of hooey. One or both aren't telling the truth.
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