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NPR Reports Additional Inconsistencies Found In Marco Rubio's Family History

Jillian Rayfield | October 25, 2011, 2:20PM

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)

There may be even more inconsistencies in Marco Rubio's version of his family history, which he's recently been accused of "embellishing" for political gain.

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Topics: Cuba, Florida, Marco Rubio

Rubio Denies 'Outrageous' Story Claiming He Embellished Family History

Jillian Rayfield | October 21, 2011, 10:45AM

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) called it "outrageous" that people are questioning the story of his family history, after the Washington Post published a story suggesting that his parents came to the United States before Fidel Castro took power, contrary to what Rubio has claimed in the past.

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Topics: Cuba, Florida, Marco Rubio

Wikileaks: U.S. Official Snubbed Cuban Plea for Hurricane Aid

Brian Fung | September 16, 2011, 12:56PM

Cuba doesn't make a habit of asking the United States for help. The two countries haven't had formal diplomatic relations for 50 years. So when Havana hesitantly raises the issue of disaster aid with a U.S. Coast Guard officer while on a boat in the middle of the Caribbean where nobody can see or hear them talking -- that's probably important, right?

That's exactly what happened in 2009, according to a secret U.S. diplomatic cable that records a conversation between an American counternarcotics agent and a Cuban foreign ministry official. But instead of weighing the proposal or passing it up the chain of command, the U.S. agent simply said no.

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Topics: Cuba, Wikileaks

Haiti

U.S. And Cuba Showing Signs Of Cooperation In Haiti Relief Effort

Justin Elliott | January 22, 2010, 9:43AM

Marines with the 22nd Marines Expeditionary Unit in Leogand, 25 miles outside of Port-au-Prince

The United States is prepared to give medical supplies to a team of Cuban doctors in Port-au-Prince who reportedly ran out of anaesthetic this week, a State Department spokesman tells TPMmuckraker.

"The United States has communicated its readiness to make medical relief supplies available to Cuban doctors working on the ground in Haiti as part of the international relief effort," said spokesman Darby Holladay.

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Topics: Center for Democracy in the Americas, Cuba, Embargo, Haiti, Lawrence Wilkerson, Pro-Engagement, State Department

George Bush

Former White House Aide Pleads Guilty To Bilking Government-Funded Group

Zachary Roth | December 19, 2008, 4:38PM

Felipe Sixto -- the former aide to President Bush charged with stealing from a government-funded agency that works for democracy and human rights in Cuba -- pleaded guilty today to theft from a federally aided program, reports the Associated Press

Sixto resigned in March from his White House job as special assistant to the president for intergovernmental affairs.

Before that, he had worked as chief of staff of the Center for a Free Cuba, from which he stole more than $579,000 by overcharging the center for radios and flashlights, according to the Justice Department.

His sentencing is set for March.

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Topics: Cuba, Felipe Sixto, George Bush

George Bush

Ex-Bush Aide Charged With Stealing Taxpayer Money

Zachary Roth | November 25, 2008, 11:16AM

A former White House aide has been charged with stealing thousands of dollars of federal money that was intended to promote democracy in Cuba, reports the Washington Examiner.

Felipe Sixto was charged with stealing from the Center for a Free Cuba, a non-profit organization, both while he worked there from 2005 to 2007, and after he went to work in the White House last year.

In March of this year, we noted that Sixto had resigned from the White House after the allegations first surfaced. He had been working there as a special assistant to the president in the office of inter-governmental affairs.