The current head of U.S .diplomacy and the highest authority of the National Security Council is named Marco Antonio, in honor of Julius Caesar's loyal follower, although his genealogy is not the same. Both his parents and his in-laws are Cubans who left the island (before 1959), harboring an unspoken resentment toward the Cuban Revolution, which was later compounded by a deep-seated contempt for any Latin American and/or Caribbean government that espoused a vision of sovereignty or resisted U.S. arrogance.
Marco Rubio was born in 1971 in Miami and spent part of his adolescence in Las Vegas, where his parents were hired by the acolytes of Meyer Lansky and Lucky Luciano, who had to hastily abandon their casinos in Havana. This family affinity with the criminal underworld would never leave "Narco" Rubio during his 54 years of life. He and his family will be caught up in a chronology of events that the mainstream media refuses to compile. Beginning in the 1960s, Miami became one of the most important drug distribution centers in the United States, thanks to the know-how provided by those who had fled Cuba. From that moment on, the crime rate in Miami increased by 60%, becoming, according to official figures, "the most important center of organized crime in the United States." In this context, the Rubio family prospered, thanks to the commendable work of their brother-in-law, Orlando Cicilia, who became wealthy by trading cocaine imported from Colombia, using snakes to smuggle kilos of drugs inside their bodies.
The FBI intervention, which arrested Rubio's brother-in-law, named the operation Operation Cobra, in reference to the use of snakes for drug trafficking. Cicilia, whom the Miami Herald identified as the gang leader, was sentenced to 25 years in prison in 1989 but was released in 2002 after becoming a collaborator with law enforcement. The proceeds from the crimes committed by Rubio's brother-in-law were estimated at $80 million but were never recovered. Miami journalists claim that the current head of diplomacy managed to secure family funding for his various election campaigns. This was probably Rubio's reward for having been, as a teenager, one of those responsible for earning a living—according to his biographer, Manuel Roig-Franzia—by assembling the packaging in which the snakes were transported. Negotiations for Cicilia to become a DEA collaborator were driven by prosecutor Dexter Lehtinen, who secured the collaboration of Rubio's brother-in-law to justify the invasion of Panama, the murder of 517 people, and the kidnapping of Manuel Antonio Noriega in 1989. On that occasion, Lehtinen rewarded the young Rubio—one of those responsible for convincing his brother-in-law—with an internship in the office of his wife, Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the first Cuban-American congresswoman, who from then on became the political godmother of the current Secretary of State.
Two years later, Rubio joined the technical teams of Lincoln Diaz-Balart, another of the great leaders of the Miami "worms" (counterrevolutionary movement), along with his close friend David Rivera, who was denounced years later for electoral fraud after winning a seat in Congress. After working with Rubio in Díaz-Balart's offices, he worked in the so-called Cuba Broadcasting Office, responsible for spreading anti-revolutionary propaganda, and as a contractor for USAID. According to Melanie Sloan, director of the organization Citizens for Responsibility, Rivera "must be the most corrupt member of Capitol Hill," despite having been consistently defended by Rubio. The fact is that both have a shared history and complicity, having been financed by Scott Steinger, a businessman who was sentenced to 20 years in prison for running a Ponzi scheme that left more than a thousand victims, totaling $1.2 billion in fraud, and for laundering assets from Colombian drug traffickers. Both of their campaigns also received contributions from Alan Mendelsohn, convicted of laundering drug trafficking assets.
That wasn't the only thing that linked them: they also participated in a flagrant dispossession of the Seminole Indians, limiting one of their sources of subsistence. Investigations prove that both congressmen benefited their campaign contributors—gambling entrepreneurs—by imposing unfair competition on indigenous peoples. However, the FBI decided not to investigate either legislator because its budget depended on Republican support. Security agencies had decided to discontinue investigations into the backgrounds of contributors Steinger and Mendelsohn and the purchase of votes linked to casinos because Republicans threatened to question the FBI's budget in Congress. Prosecutors, for their part, avoided investigating Rubio, who was on an upward political trajectory.
The links between Rivera and Rubio coincide with the massive embezzlement of the state-owned company CITGO, belonging to the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. According to allegations leaked by former officials at the Texas headquarters of that oil company, Rivera carried out fraudulent activities, in collusion with Rubio, while working at that corporation, on the recommendation of his close friend. The then-treasurer of CITGO Petroleum Corporation, a subsidiary of PDVSA in the United States, Gina Coon, claimed to have documents, emails, WhatsApp messages, and audio recordings that would confirm the criminal operations perpetrated by Rivera and Rubio. Despite attempts by influential figures in the Republican Party in Florida to obstruct the Justice Department's investigation, former Florida Congressman David Rivera was arrested in Atlanta, Georgia, in December 2022, charged by the prosecution with several counts, including illegally working as a "foreign agent" (FARA).
The indictment refers to a "Senator 1" from the state of Florida. At that time, there were only two senators from that state: Rick Scott and Marco Rubio. On March 29, 2025, Venezuela News reported that Alejandro Terán, director of the Latin American Association of Petroleum Entrepreneurs in Texas, claimed that Rubio received illegal contributions from the foundation run by Juan Guaidó. Terán also accused them of being lobbyists for ExxonMobil, one of the corporations that Trump and his Secretary of State are seeking to reintroduce into Venezuela. The link between the two has always been symbiotic. In 2005, they bought a property together to house their party headquarters. At that time, Rivera was known as "the cheater" and "the enforcer." Both were identified as the "golden duo" until one of them began to be known as "Narco" Rubio. (Taken from Página 12)
