He could have become the darling of the hardline Cuban exiles, but rejected that.
But in Florida anyone trying to get people off the island wins sympathy from Cuban exiles.
Rubio was born to Cuban exiles in Miami in 1971, and so he's automatically a U.S. citizen.
The French firm is no stranger to battles over rum with Cuban exiles.
Shortly after his inauguration, Kennedy permitted a band of Cuban exiles, already armed and trained, to invade their homeland.
And the Cuban exiles' unity has been bought at the price of deepening divisions between them and everyone else.
Anyway, Cuban exiles have long found ways to circumvent restrictions, for instance by sending money by courier through third countries.
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The report alleged that they were recruited by Cuban exiles in Miami but arrested before the Pope arrived in Havana.
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The reference got a polite laugh from the CES audience, but Cuban exiles in South Florida are notoriously and understandably touchy about such references.
And it also points to the woeful lack of understanding on the part of most Americans -- those who would dismiss Guillen's words and Cuban exiles' reaction to them as irrelevant -- about the Cuban-American experience, versus the understanding that Americans have of the Jewish experience.
Though poorer Cubans poured into Miami on rafts in the early 1990s, Cuban Miami is still run by the first wave of exiles.
Some of the older exiles, such as Carlos Trueba, a Cuban-born retiree playing dominoes in an outdoor park in Miami's Little Havana, object to the lack of ideological spine among the new arrivals.
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