Cuba

Congressman Diaz-Balart offered the following statement on IKEA’s release of the results of the investigation after IKEA was accused of working with the Cuban regime to use prisoner slave labor to manufacture furniture.

El Congresista Diaz-Balart condenó hoy el brutal arresto y la encarcelación de Antonio Rodiles, director del programa cubano de libre opinión "Estado de SATS", y su colega opositor, Ángel Santiesteban.

Congressman Diaz-Balart condemned the brutal arrest and imprisonment of Antonio Rodiles, director of the Cuban free opinion program entitled, “Estado de SATS,” and fellow pro-democracy activist, Ángel Santiesteban.

Representatives Diaz-Balart and Ros-Lehtinen sent a letter to Secretary Clinton, Attorney General Holder, and Secretary Napolitano asking for the immediate removal of Castro regime enforcer and a brutal head of prisons, Crescencio Marino Rivero, and for an explanation of why convicted Cuban spy Rene Gonzalez was allowed to travel to Washington, D.C.

Representatives Diaz-Balart, King, and Garrett sent a letter to President Obama expressing disgust that, due to abuses of weakened travel regulations under the Obama administration, U.S. students recently met with a fugitive from U.S. justice while purportedly on an "educational" trip to Cuba, which currently harbors more than seventy fugitives from U.S. justice.

Congressman Diaz-Balart released a statement of support of pro-democracy activists in Cuba who were on a hunger strike.

This afternoon, Congressman Diaz-Balart, Congresswoman Ros-Lehtinen, Congressman Rivera, and former Congressman Lincoln Diaz-Balart, held a press conference in support of the more than 25 human rights and pro-democracy activists who are on a hunger strike.

On Monday, September 17th, members of the South Florida delegation will hold a press conference in support of the more than 25 human rights and pro-democracy activists who are on a hunger strike.