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✨ Cuban-American Mel Martinez made history as a United States Senator from Florida, serving from 2005 to 2009.

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Mel Martinez is a Cuban-Floridian who not only used his political success to fight for the rights of Hispanic Americans, but overcame tremendous obstacles in.

Mel Martinez is a living embodiment of the American Dream.

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Mel Martinez is a Cuban-Floridian who not only used his political success to fight for the rights of Hispanic Americans, but overcame tremendous obstacles in....

Mel Martínez: 1947—: Cabinet Secretary

Melquiades Martínez was born in 1947 in Sagua la Grande, Cuba.

The son of a veterinarian, he was twelve when a 1959 coup brought Communist guerrilla leader Fidel Castro to power on the island. The new government was not supported by all, and one teen in Sagua la Grande was taken before a firing squad after being accused of anti-government activities.

The swift and improbable rise of Mel Martinez to the top echelon of America's government began not with a political race but with a burst of gunfire.

Catholic schools were closed, and the atmosphere grew tense as Martínez entered his teens. He once played in a basketball game wearing a religious symbol around his neck, and was taunted for it. "The words 'Kill him, he is a Catholic' had a chilling ring for my desperate and frightened parents," Martínez told a Senate Judiciary committee many years later, according to St.

Petersburg Times writer Curtis Krueger.

Uneasy with a Communist government—Latin America's only one for a time—and firm Soviet ally so close, the United States government attempted to subvert C