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Members of South Florida's congressional delegation joined Venezuelan opposition leader Mar铆a Corina Machado in a chorus of solidarity following news late Wednesday of two devastating back-to-back earthquakes striking Venezuela.

Two South Florida Republican lawmakers joined with Democrats on Thursday to push forward a bill in the House that would reinstate Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, for 350,000 Haitians in the United States.

Hector Mujica, a Venezuelan-American who left his longtime job at Google to run for the U.S. Senate in Florida, is leaving the statewide race to compete in the Democratic primary for the 28th congressional district currently held by Republican U.S. Rep. Carlos Gim茅nez.

Venezuela opposition leader Maria Corina Machado spoke briefly on Capitol Hill Tuesday as she met with lawmakers and worked to shore up U.S. support for her bid to lead the country after President Donald Trump ousted the former president, Nicolas Maduro.

Though "jarred" by President Trump's snub of opposition leader Mar铆a Corina Machado, expats say they accept a transition to democracy in Venezuela will take time 鈥� and in the meantime they'll push the regime to accelerate it.

South Florida lawmakers, who have long been united in their bipartisan condemnation of the Venezuelan regime led by President Nicol谩s Maduro, on Saturday morning applauded the Trump administration, and U.S. military and U.S. law enforcement authorities, for capturing the 鈥渘arco-terrorist鈥� and bringing him to justice in the U.S.

Even before the federal government shut down Wednesday, Democratic and Republican lawmakers in South Florida were engaging in partisan finger pointing on who's to blame for the legislative standoff.

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The Cuban government is directly involved in Russia's war against Ukraine by providing thousands of Cuban mercenaries, making the communist island nation one of the largest foreign sources of troops for the Kremlin, Ukrainian intelligence officials told South Florida's Cuban-American members of Congress.

A bipartisan group South Florida lawmakers want the street in front of the Cuban government鈥檚 embassy in Washington renamed after a prominent Cuban dissident killed 13 years ago this month in a mysterious car crash in Cuba.

The Republican lawmaker visited the prison 鈥� and plans to visit the Krome Detention Center 鈥� in response to a Miami Herald investigative story about harsh conditions and improper use of force on detainees at the Miami facility.

In an interview Saturday on CNN, the South Florida Republican lawmaker said he has directly relayed his concerns about President Donald Trump鈥檚 deportation enforcement strategy with Administration officials.