Cuba

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.

Congressman Diaz-Balart released the following statement in response to an internal email that was sent within the Environmental Protection Agency that featured an image of Che Guevara:

Congressman Diaz-Balart spoke on the House Floor regarding the hunger strike underway in Cuba by brave human rights and pro-democracy activists to protest the regime's brutal oppression and the unjust imprisonment of political prisoners.

The Assembly of the Cuban Resistance, in conjunction with the International Republican Institute and the Center for Freedom and Democracy, hosted an event this afternoon entitled "Pro-Democracy Movements in Totalitarian States.”