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The remarkable story of how a teenager rescued from Castro’sCuba rose to become a United States senator
The swift and improbable rise of Mel Martinez to the top echelonof America’s government began not with a political race but with aburst of gunfire. In April 1958, an eleven-year-old Martinezhuddled on his bedroom floor while Cuban soldiers opened fire oninsurgents outside his family’s home in the town of Sagua laGrande.
If political unrest made daily life disturbing and at timesfrightening, Fidel Castro’s Communist Revolution nine months laterwas nothing short of devastating. When armed militiamen shoutedviolent threats at Martinez for wearing a medallion as a sign ofhis Catholic faith, his parents made a heartrending decision: theirson would have to escape the Castro regime–alone.
The swift and improbable rise of Mel Martinez to the top echelonof America’s government began not with a political race but with aburst of gunfire. In April 1958, an eleven-year-old Martinezhuddled on his bedroom floor while Cuban soldiers opened fire oninsurgents outside his family’s home in the town of Sagua laGrande.
If political unrest made daily life disturbing and at timesfrightening, Fidel Castro’s Communist Revolution nine months laterwas nothing short of devastating. When armed militiamen shoutedviolent threats at Martinez for wearing a medallion as a sign ofhis Catholic faith, his parents made a heartrending decision: theirson would have to escape the Castro regime–alone.