Elián González Brotons is a Cuban engineer and politician. As a young child,he was at the center of a high-profile international custody dispute between family members and involving Cuba and the United States.
Alexander Penelas is an American attorney who is the former mayor of Miami-Dade County,Florida.
Lincoln Rafael Díaz-Balart is a Cuban-American attorney and politician. He was the U.S. representative for Florida's 21st congressional district from 1993 to 2011. He is a member of the Republican Party. He previously served in the Florida House of Representatives and the Florida Senate. He retired from Congress in 2011 and his younger brother,Mario Díaz-Balart,who had previously represented Florida's 25th congressional district,succeeded him. He is currently chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Leadership Institute. After leaving Congress,he started a law practice and a consulting firm,both based in Miami,Florida.
Mario Rafael Díaz-Balart Caballero is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for Florida's 26th congressional district. A member of the Republican Party,he was elected in 2002,and his district includes much of southwestern Miami-Dade County,including Hialeah,and much of the northern portion of the Everglades.
Cuban Americans are Americans who immigrated from or are descended from immigrants from Cuba,regardless of racial or ethnic origin. As of 2023,Cuban Americans were the fourth largest Hispanic and Latino American group in the United States after Mexican Americans,Stateside Puerto Ricans and Salvadoran Americans.
Joseph Xavier Carollo is a Cuban-American politician who served as mayor of Miami from 1996 to 1997 and again from 1998 to 2001. Following his loss in the 2001 mayoral election,he served as Doral,Florida city manager from January 2013 until his firing in April 2014;he was reinstated in June 2017,then immediately resigned. He successfully ran for election to the Miami city commission in 2017.
Raúl L. Martínez is a former mayor of Hialeah,Florida,United States. He is a Democrat and was mayor for 24 years,first elected in 1981 and was the Democratic congressional candidate for Florida's 21st congressional district in 2008.
The Florida Democratic Party is the affiliate of the Democratic Party in the U.S. state of Florida,headquartered in Tallahassee. Former commissioner of agriculture Nikki Fried is the current chair.
The Cuban–American lobby are various groups of Cuban exiles in the United States and their descendants who have historically influenced the United States' policy toward Cuba. In general usage,this refers to anti-Castro groups.
The 2000 United States presidential election in Florida took place on November 7,2000,as part of the nationwide presidential election. Florida,a swing state,had a major recount dispute that took center stage in the election. The outcome of the 2000 United States presidential election was not known for more than a month after balloting because of the extended process of counting and recounting Florida's presidential ballots. State results tallied on election night gave 246 electoral votes to Republican nominee Texas Governor George W. Bush and 255 to Democratic nominee Vice President Al Gore,with New Mexico (5),Oregon (7),and Florida (25) too close to call that evening. Gore won New Mexico and Oregon over the following few days,but the result in Florida was decisive,regardless of how those two states had voted.
The 2002 Florida gubernatorial election took place on November 5,2002,for the post of Governor of Florida. Incumbent Republican governor Jeb Bush defeated Democratic candidate Bill McBride. Bush became the first Republican governor of Florida to win re-election to a second term. This election was the last time until 2022 that a Florida gubernatorial candidate won the general election by double digits or that a Republican won Miami-Dade County.
RenéGarcía is a Republican politician from Florida. He has served on the Miami-Dade County Commission since 2020,representing the Hialeah area. He previously served in the Florida House of Representatives from 2000 to 2008 and in the Florida Senate from 2010 to 2018.
JoséAntonio Garcia Jr.,known as Joe Garcia,is an American attorney and politician. Garcia represented Florida's 26th congressional district in the House of Representatives from 2013 to 2015. A Democrat,Garcia represented most of western Miami-Dade County and the Florida Keys in Congress.
The 2008 United States House of Representatives Elections in Florida were held on November 4,2008 to determine who would represent the state of Florida in the United States House of Representatives. Representatives are elected for two-year terms;those elected served in the 111th Congress from January 4,2009 until January 3,2011. The election coincided with the 2008 U.S. presidential election.
Armando Gutierrez is a Cuban-American banker,political consultant,and entrepreneur.
Johnny Diaz is an American novelist and a journalist for The New York Times. He previously worked for the Sun Sentinel,where he wrote local feature stories about South Florida,and as a media reporter for the business section of The Boston Globe.
Manuel Alberto Diaz II is an American football coach who is the head football coach at Duke University. He served as the defensive coordinator and linebackers coach at Pennsylvania State University from 2022 to 2023 and as the head football coach at the University of Miami from 2019 to 2021. Diaz previously worked as the head coach for Temple University and as an assistant football coach at Mississippi State University,Louisiana Tech University,the University of Texas at Austin,Middle Tennessee State University,North Carolina State University,and Florida State University.
Miguel Díaz de la Portilla is a Cuban-American attorney and politician from Florida. A Republican,he served in the Florida Senate from 2010 to 2016,representing parts of Miami,Coral Gables,and the surrounding area. Prior to that,he was a member of the Miami-Dade County Commission from 1993 to 2000.
Latino Americans make up an increasing share of the United States (U.S.) electorate. A significant proportion of Hispanic and Latino Americans vote for the Republican Party,and increasing numbers have been elected to office as Republicans.
Manny Díaz Jr. is an American politician serving as the 28th Education Commissioner of Florida. A Republican,Díaz was a member of the Florida Senate from 2018 to 2022,representing the 36th district,which encompasses the Hialeah area in northwest Miami-Dade County. He also served three terms in the Florida House of Representatives from 2012 to 2018,which encompassed parts of Hialeah and Northwest Miami-Dade County,Florida.
