PORTRAIT – Marco Rubio, former rising figure of the Republican Party, was appointed this Wednesday to the post of Secretary of State in the next Trump administration.
Donald Trump distills his future government. Elon Musk, billionaire and successful business leader, will lead a “department of government effectiveness”Pete Hegseth, FoxNews presenter, will be Minister of Defense, and Marco Rubio, Senator from Florida, will head the Secretary of State, the Department of Foreign Affairs. His duties will not take effect until after Donald Trump's inauguration on January 20. An accomplishment for this son of Cuban immigrants. Its history follows the much-vaunted “American dream”. His parents, a bartender and housekeeper in a hotel, fled communism and their native island in 1956. Marco Rubio was born in 1971, in Florida, a southern state where many Cuban immigrants live. “It’s a very important element, as origins matter in American politics, because it makes him a visceral anti-communist”underlines Lauric Henneton, lecturer at the University of Versailles-Saint-Quentin.
From his childhood, he cultivated a…
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