The Odisea bookstore hosted the Chilean launch of Marco Rubio: un mitómano incontrolable (Marco Rubio: An Uncontrollable Mythomaniac), a title that analyzes the figure of the current U.S. Secretary of State and his alleged compulsive tendency to lie.
The publication, authored by Cuban journalist, researcher, and writer Hedelberto López Blanch, was presented under the sponsorship of the Varsot Foundation and the publishing house Ventana Abierta.

"This book provides a concrete map of a real operator — in the flesh and in a tie — who today holds a position from which he intends to decide the fate of peoples," declared Chilean sociologist and politician Daniel Jadue, of Palestinian descent, at the book's presentation.

Born in 1971 in the United States, Marco Rubio is the son of Cuban immigrants who left the island for economic reasons prior to the Revolution. Nevertheless, Rubio had long insisted that his parents had fled after the revolutionary triumph — a claim contradicted by documents published by The Washington Post in 2011.

"Rubio, more than a senator, is a politician who makes lying his primary asset and aggression his only platform," wrote Jadue in the book's prologue.

The text documents Rubio's alleged connections to the Cuban-American political establishment in Miami, to the National Rifle Association — from which he has reportedly received millions of dollars — and to the Israeli lobby.

"Hedelberto López Blanch shows that Rubio was born in a city where the counter-revolution became an industry, and that industry became power," Jadue added.