PORTRAIT – Marco Rubio, a former rising star of the Republican Party, was named this Wednesday as Secretary of State in the next Trump administration.
Donald Trump distills his future administration. Elon Muskbillionaire and successful entrepreneur, will lead a “ministry of government efficiency”FoxNews anchor Pete Hegseth will be Secretary of Defense, and Florida Senator Marco Rubio will head the State Department, the Department of Foreign Affairs. His duties will not take effect until after Donald Trump’s inauguration on January 20. An achievement for this son of Cuban immigrants. His story marries the much-vaunted “American dream”. His parents, a hotel bartender and housekeeper, fled communism and their native island in 1956. Marco Rubio was born in 1971 in Florida, a southern state home to many Cuban immigrants. “This is a very important element, as origins matter so much in American politics, because it makes him a visceral anti-communist.”stresses Lauric Henneton, lecturer at the University of Versailles-Saint-Quentin.
From an early age, he cultivated a talent for…
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