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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.

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.

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.

U.S. Rep. Mario D铆az-Balart, R-Miami, and U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Weston, said they remain "hopeful that ongoing negotiations will result in an agreement that frees the remaining hostages, living and deceased, and ends the Hamas terror threat."

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.

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.

鈥淐ongressman Mario D铆az-Balart is destroying his family鈥檚 legacy as he does nothing to stop Trump鈥檚 unjust and cruel ripping apart of immigrant families and the crushing of the Constitutional right to due process,鈥� said Chris Wills, a spokesman for nonprofit Keep Them Honest.

The ad features images of an armed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent pounding the doors of Venezuelan, Nicaraguan, Haitian and Cuban families with deportation orders from Trump and Rubio. It specifically targets U.S. Rep. Carlos Gim茅nez and U.S. Rep. Mario D铆az-Balart, for taking no action to stop the administration鈥檚 actions.

The brazen attack on Saturday was captured on video and shook a country that decades ago often faced kidnappings and killings of politicians and high-profile people.

Two groups, Keep Them Honest and a group of "Cubans with I-220A," have launched billboard ad campaigns in South Florida, targeting Republican Cuban American politicians Maria Elvira Salazar, Mario Diaz-Balart, and Carlos Gimenez

Former U.S. Congressman Lincoln Diaz-Balart, who was key to turning the Cuban embargo into law and represented Florida鈥檚 21st congressional district for 18 years, has died.