For Rubio the Cuba Hawk, the Road to Havana Runs Through Venezuela NYT | Top Stories By: Michael Crowley and Edward Wong 14 December 2025 at 00:24 President Trump’s secretary of state and national security adviser has long sought to cripple or topple Cuba’s government, which has close security and economic ties to Venezuela. © Allison Robbert for The New York TimesSecretary of State Marco Rubio’s parents immigrated to Florida from Havana three years before Cuba’s communist revolution prevailed in 1959.
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