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Congresswoman Debbie Murcasel Powell (D-FL) held a meeting at her office to acknowledge the efforts of leaders in the Hispanic community.  Murcasel Powell, who is of Ecuadorian descent, spoke with the ambassador to Ecuador in Washington about the anti-government protests which began when President Lenin Moreno began raising taxes and eliminated a subsidy on the price […]

"The United States continues to stand with the people of Venezuela in their fight to restore democratic order and the rule of law.”

“all property and interests in the property of the Government of Venezuela that are in the United States... are blocked and may not be transferred, paid, exported, withdrawn, or otherwise dealt in.”

“There’s no way it was gonna pass this week."

"Republicans have been wrapping themselves in the Venezuelan flag and claiming to be champions for the restoration of Venezuelan democracy."

House passes Venezuelan Temporary Protective Status (TPS)

By a vote of 268-154, the U.S. House of Representatives has failed to pass Rep. Darren Soto’s Venezuela TPS Act (H.R. 459), a bill that would have given Venezuelan nationals Temporary Protected Status (TPS).

For decades, the U.S. Department of State had Communist Cuba designated as a State Sponsor of Terrorism, but President Obama, in move to “ease” travel restrictions, and further good will, lifted that designation. President Donald Trump has been in office two-years, and while he has all-but rewritten Obama’s foreign policy with Cuba, he still hasn’t […]

"America continues to increase pressure against Nicolas Maduro’s illegitimate dictatorship and its foreign enablers."

“There is no reason American taxpayers should be supporting the Chinese government."

The Trump administrations recent decision to ban cruises to Cuba was predicated on the Cuban government’s continued role in destabilizing the Western Hemisphere, and supporting anti-Democratic and lawless countries like Nicolas Maduro’s Venezuela, and Daniel Ortega’s Nicaragua.

"A primary goal of comprehensive immigration reform must be to dramatically curtail future illegal immigration.”

“The United States Should not anoint the leader of the opposition in Venezuela during an internal, politicized conflict.”

“The Chinese are there. The Russians are there. They are not our friends,” said Scott. “Its (China) government that has built a military to compete with us.

"This bill sends a clear message that the United States stands with the people of Venezuela."

But in his final years as governor of Florida, Scott began to callout Venezuela, and the Cuban regime that has propped up that dictatorship, as well as other similar governments throughout Latin America.

"More drugs are coming out of Colombia right now than before he was president, so he has done nothing for us.”

Now Venezuela’s Socialist Party leader and “Drug Czar,” Diosdado Cebello, has challenged Rubio to take a lie detector test with him.