Carlos A. Giménez

This same poll also shows a substantial portion of those polled — more than 28 percent — remain undecided

Giménez, whose family fled Cuba when he was seven, represents part of Miami-Dade county, home to some 110,000 residents of Haitian ancestry

US warns Havana is ‘a national security threat’ as Trump ramps up pressure

Cuba is more cohesive and ideologically entrenched, raising risk of resistance

A group of House Republicans defied President Donald Trump on Thursday to support shielding more than 350,000 Haitian nationals from deportation

Giménez's comments, reported by Florida Politics, come as Republicans grapple with warning signs in Florida, a key political battleground

Giménez's comments, reported by Florida Politics, come as Republicans grapple with warning signs in Florida, a key political battleground

House Budget Chair Jodey Arrington is in informal talks with Senate Budget Chair Lindsey Graham about a second reconciliation bill to fund the Pentagon — and potentially DHS

Hundreds of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were ordered to deploy to airports to help fill TSA staffing gaps across the country

U.S. President Donald Trump vowed Monday to "take" Cuba as the communist island plunged into darkness under a total power blackout linked to a crippling oil embargo imposed by Washington

Cuba's national electric grid collapsed on Monday, leaving about 10 million people without power amid a U.S.-imposed oil blockade that has crippled the island's already obsolete generation system

The nomination comes as the Department of Homeland Security sits at the center of President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown and broader homeland security agenda, placing whoever leads the agency in charge of border enforcement, FEMA disaster response and counterterrorism operations at a time of mounting geopolitical pressure

Cuba Acknowledges Negotiations With Washington

Public frustration over stalled nuclear negotiations with Iran quickly escalated into a sweeping US military operation that reshaped Tehran’s leadership and unsettled global markets

Safe havens in the Mideast like Dubai have seen incoming fire; hundreds of thousands of airline passengers are stranded around the globe; oil prices shot up; and U.S. allies pledged to help stop Iranian missiles and drones

President Trump has become increasingly willing to assert American power overseas, a decade after propelling himself to the highest office by promising to focus on “America first.”

Man shot dead by Cuban coastguard ‘wanted to cause uprising’

Cuban border forces opened fire on a Florida-registered speedboat near Cayo Falcones off Cuba’s northern coast on February 25, killing four people and wounding six others after the vessel allegedly violated Cuban territorial waters and fired first on a Cuban patrol boat commander

Carlos Gimenez warned the Cuban regime not to "continue defying" the Trump administration because it "won't last long" if they get on its "bad side."

A top Cuban official turned U.S. President Donald Trump's latest remarks about the Caribbean island back on American officials who dispute that the country's economic problems are caused by the actions of Washington

Almost two thirds of Cuba will face blackouts on Tuesday as fuel shortages resulting from U.S. pressure grow

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt will brief reporters Tuesday afternoon as criticism mounts over the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement operations

Republicans control Congress but hold a slim majority in both the House and the Senate

Venezuela's powerful interior minister, Diosdado Cabello, pledged loyalty on behalf of police forces

Ileana Garcia sees herself as a truth-teller within her party

American forces carried out a series of airstrikes on the Venezuelan capital of Caracas and several other regions of the country on January 3, while US commandos abducted Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores

Since United States armed forces abducted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on January 3, Machado has maintained a steady public presence

At her first press conference since Maduro's dramatic capture by US forces on January 3, Rodriguez cast herself as a unifier

The US Senate on Thursday advanced a resolution aimed at curbing President Donald Trump’s military actions in Venezuela, a rare bipartisan challenge following alarm over the secretive capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro

Venezuela’s interim leader has hit back at US plans to indefinitely control her country’s oil wealth and dictate where profits can be spent

Venezuela’s interim leader has hit back at US plans to indefinitely control her country’s oil wealth and dictate where profits can be spent

Republicans have spent days casting the stunning arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro as the ultimate display of strength and power

Every morning in London, Delcy Rodriguez — Nicolás Maduro's vice president — would pick up her tube of toothpaste and berate it as a 'capitalist product.'

The reported demands signal intensifying US pressure on Venezuela over its energy sector and geopolitical alignments

Concerns that Venezuela could descend into civil war are mounting after heavily armed far-left militias seized control of Caracas streets whilst military personnel were spotted abandoning their positions

President Donald Trump has adopted an interventionist posture to justify toppling dictator Nicolás Maduro’s regime in Venezuela — and has signaled he’ll take the same approach with other Latin American countries next as his administration seeks to assert dominance in the Western Hemisphere

Concerns that Venezuela could descend into civil war are mounting after heavily armed far-left militias seized control of Caracas streets whilst military personnel were spotted abandoning their positions

President Donald Trump appeared to have split Americans Monday morning, with a relatively even split of voters asked in two polls approving and disapproving of his actions in Venezuela

Although Trump’s recent approval numbers have been low among Democrats and independent voters, most Republicans still approve of his job performance; and most Republicans in Congress continue to back the president despite some cracks in support

House Speaker defends Trump administration's operation in Venezuela as lawmakers question next steps

Carlos Gimenez fled Cuba's communist dictatorship as a child

Top congressional leaders emerged from Monday's 2+ hours classified briefing with radically different interpretations of the Trump administration's short- and long-term goals for Venezuela

Carlos Gimenez fled Cuba's communist dictatorship as a child