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: : Monday, December 12, 2005

: : Bob Menendez: Cuban-American Hero or Cuban-
: : American Castroite?

: : Murray Sabrin

: : Governor-elect Corzine’s appointment of Congressman Robert Menendez to fill the remaining year of his U.S. Senate term was no surprise. Corzine had been signaling the Menendez appointment since he jumped into the governor’s race a year ago. 

: : In all the press reports about the life and career of Bob Menendez, he is always identified as the son of Cuban immigrants. The implication is that Menendez’s parents fled Castro-ruled Cuba. In yesterday’s Record columnist Mike Kelly writes, “As the son of Cuban –American parents, who fled the brutal hand of Fidel Castro…” stating in no uncertain terms that Menendez’s parents arrived in America to escape Castro’s brutal totalitarian regime. (Emphasis added)

: : In his address accepting governor-elect Corzine’s appointment to the U.S. Senate, Menendez said, “My own parents came to this country fleeing tyranny and searching for freedom.” Again, Menendez implied his parents fled Cuba because of Castro’s oppressive policies. And journalists have been inferring that the Menendez family escaped the Castro regime. 

: : There is one major problem with the newspaper reports about Menendez’s parents’ migration from Cuba, and Mike Kelly’s column. Bob Menendez was born in New York on January 1, 1954, exactly five years before Castro seized power on January 1, 1959. Menendez’s parents arrived in America well before Castro ousted the dictatorial Batista regime. In other words, the Menendez family did not leave Cuba because of Castro. Why did they leave Cuba? Were Mr. and Mrs. Menendez brutalized by Batista—the Cuban dictator of the early 1950s? If so, how were they able to leave Cuba? 

: : Numerous questions remain unanswered about the Menendez’s family migration to America. Will the congressman set the record straight?

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: : For the complete piece, please click on the Link.

: ::;;::A question. If Mr. Menendez is of Cuban descent and from Union City how come he has recently developed a New Englandish sounding accent? Could he be emulating that ethical icon - Ted Kennedy?


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