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August 9, 2013
Congressman Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL), Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), and former Congressman Lincoln Diaz-Balart (R-FL) met with Jorge Luis García Pérez (“Antúnez”) and his wife, Yris Tamara Pérez Aguilera. Antúnez leads the Orlando Zapata Tamayo Civic Resistance and Civil Disobedience Front, and Pérez Aguilera heads the Rosa Parks Women’s Movement for Civil Rights.
Issues:CubaForeign Affairs
August 7, 2013
On Friday, August 9th, Congresswoman Ros-Lehtinen, Congressman Mario Diaz-Balart, and former Congressman Lincoln Diaz-Balart, will meet with Jorge Luis García Pérez (“Antúnez”) and his wife, Yris Tamara Pérez Aguilera.
Issues:Cuba
August 2, 2013
Congressman Diaz-Balart released the following statement after press reports indicate that Cuban explosives and other live munitions were found on the North Korean “Chong Chon Gang” vessel found to be smuggling weapons from Cuba last month.
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May 20, 2013
Congressman Diaz-Balart released the following statement in honor of Cuba’s Independence Day.
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April 9, 2013
Congressman Diaz-Balart released the following statement in response to the U.S. Treasury Department confirming that they provided so-called “people-to-people” travel licenses to Beyoncé Carter-Knowles (Beyoncé) and Shawn Carter (Jay-Z) for a recent trip to Cuba.
Issues:Cuba
April 6, 2013
Congressman Diaz-Balart released the following statement in response to the recent trip taken by two U.S. celebrities to Cuba.
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March 26, 2013
Congressman Diaz-Balart sent an urgent letter to the Chargé d’Affaires of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights asking that Cuban refugees within its custody not be forcibly returned to Cuba.
Issues:CubaForeign Affairs
March 8, 2013
Congressman Diaz-Balart and Congresswoman Ros-Lehtinen released a statement condemning beating of pro-democracy activist Yris Perez Aguilera by Castro thugs.
Issues:Cuba
February 25, 2013
Congressman Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL) released the following statement in remembrance of the third anniversary of the death of pro-democracy activist Orlando Zapata Tamayo.
Issues:Cuba
Diaz-Balart: We Must Redouble Our Commitment to Cuban Democracy in Honor of ‘Brothers to the Rescue'
February 25, 2013
Congressman Diaz-Balart released the following statement in remembrance of the seventeenth anniversary of the “Brothers to the Rescue” plane shoot-down.
Issues:Cuba