Marco Rubio, one of the worst men of his time

The recent attack on the sister nation of Venezuela and the kidnapping of its constitutional president, Nicolás Maduro, and his wife has once again placed the world's spotlight on a figure as sinister as the Secretary of State in the current administration of Donald Trump, the Republican politician Marco Rubio.
With a despicable track record, this figure, beyond his official position, symbolizes the most persistent shadows of US policy toward Latin America.

In an interview with journalist and researcher Hedelberto López Blanch, author of a recent book about Rubio, we learned that he is of Cuban descent and that throughout his political career he has been characterized by a lack of ethics, entanglements in corruption, a prodigious tendency to deceive, far-right positions, and his unhealthy obsession with overthrowing progressive and sovereign nations in Latin America, primarily Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, and the current governments of Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico.

As René González Sehwerert, Hero of the Republic of Cuba, wrote in the prologue to the book "Rubio, an Uncontrollable Mythomaniac," the work "could have been titled Marco Rubio: A Man of His Time," but of the worst aspect of that time: cynicism, manipulation, and corruption.

López Blanch notes that Rubio is not a conventional politician; he is the historical product of an ecosystem shaped by the Cuban exile community in Miami, where opposition to the January 1959 Revolution was transformed into ideology, business, and a means of social advancement.

Many would call him a product of anti-Castro sentiment, given that the United States had created an immigrant community and granted it all sorts of privileges to oppose Cuba, while simultaneously intensifying the economic, commercial, and financial blockade against the island.

He was born in Miami on May 28, 1971, to Cuban parents who had emigrated to the U.S., during a turbulent time in that city, rife with drugs, attacks, and intolerance toward anything said in favor of the Revolution.

"An era marked by the rise of drug trafficking, political radicalization, and hostility toward Cuba fostered by U.S. agencies," the journalist emphasized.

He recalled that this environment incubated a generation of politicians who made anti-Castro rhetoric their moral credential and survival strategy.

His biography, however, built on myths of heroic exile, was debunked by investigations by media outlets such as The Washington Post, which revealed that his parents had emigrated before 1959, deflating the narrative of "son of exiles from the Castro regime," which Rubio promoted for years.

Shameful Endorsements In his political rise, Rubio has enjoyed the support of powerful lobbies, including the National Rifle Association, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)—he is known as a staunch Zionist—and sectors of the military-industrial complex, which have given him substantial sums of money and unconditionally support his political campaigns.

This explains his alignment with the most hardline positions in U.S. foreign policy.

"These connections have guaranteed his political longevity and reinforced his 'defense of freedom' rhetoric, which has translated into sanctions, blockades, and disinformation campaigns against progressive governments in Latin America," explained López Blanch.

"His time in the Florida House of Representatives and later in the U.S. Senate was marked by controversy, accusations of corruption, and a notorious misuse of public funds for personal gain—cases that, in the typical impunity of Miami politics, were dismissed," the writer argued.

Added to this are his family ties to drug trafficking—through his brother-in-law Orlando Cicilia, arrested for drug trafficking—and his financial connections to groups like BGR Group, linked to the defense of controversial figures in Honduras and other countries.

Rubio in power, architect of evil Secretary of State Rubio embodies the continuation of an aggressive foreign policy against Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua.

The most recent proof is the criminal attack against the Bolivarian Republic. He has been an architect of Washington's cruel and abominable stance, and under his influence, for example, sanctions have been intensified, campaigns against Cuban medical missions have been launched, and the interventionist agenda in the region has been reinforced. Behind this stance, his critics see less of a political vocation than a strategy of personal gain sustained by hatred and impunity.

Both René González, Hero of the Republic of Cuba, and the intellectual Abel Prieto agree that Rubio embodies the ethical crisis of the American power elites, in which money replaces values ​​and lies are disguised as patriotism. In short, he is a reflection of the system's distortions.

More than just a bureaucrat, Marco Rubio represents a political tradition inherited from the Cuban counterrevolution, one that, for decades, has blended religion, business, and hatred to maintain its influence in Miami and Washington.

His career is an expression of a system where ethics are sacrificed to electoral calculations and where anti-Castro sentiment remains politically profitable.

Ultimately, Rubio is a genuine product of his environment: a politician trained in the culture of opportunism, who has learned to capitalize on fear and resentment as tools of power.
In him converge the old and new forms of U.S. imperial politics: disinformation, media manipulation, and impunity. His story not only exposes the contradictions of the Cuban exile community but also the moral face of an empire in crisis.