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Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla.
U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio sold his American success story as he stumped across Florida two years ago.
His parents left Havana in 1959, he told a Panhandle audience, in search of a better life.
He told a Tampa Bay TV station, a Fox Business host and Sean Hannity on Fox News that his parents came from Cuba at the end of the 1950s — when dictator Fulgencio Batista fled Fidel Castro's revolution. "In 1959," he told Fox 13 and Fox Business. "In '58, '59," he told Fox News.
By Oct. 21, 2011, the biography on his U.S. Senate website still declared his parents "came to America following Fidel Castro's takeover."
But interviews, documents and news articles in September and October raised doubts.
PolitiFact Florida wanted to know: Did Rubio's parents come to America "following Fidel Castro's takeover"?
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