For US secretary of state Rubio, Cuba policy is more than foreign affairs — it’s personal
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WASHINGTON, July 30 — As the most powerful Cuban American inside the United States government, Secretary of State Marco Rubio views the future of the communist island as a deeply...
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In his 2012 autobiography An American Son , the man oft-memed as the “viceroy” of Cuba, recounts boasting to his exiled Cuban grandfather that he would one day overthrow Fidel Castro and free Cuba.
Today, the fiercely anti-Castro 55-year-old is seen as the chief architect of the “maximum pressure” policy that President Donald Trump has imposed on Cuba’s leaders.
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- Jul 29, 2026
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- Sep 28, 2026
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