Topic: Mario Diaz Balart

House Republicans failed to elect a new speaker in the second round of voting on Wednesday as Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, continued to struggle to garner enough support.

In the first round of voting on the U.S. House floor Tuesday, Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan did not have enough votes needed to secure the speakership.

Colombia's Independence Day, celebrated by hundreds of thousands of people in Bogota, was tinged with hope that strife in the country may end, revelers said.

Three Cuban lawmakers have condemned the Justice Department's decision to send FBI agents to Cuba to collect evidence against a terror suspect.

A former Cuban politician and father of two U.S. congressmen has died in Key Biscayne, Fla., at 79-years-old.

Three Florida House members have charged an endowment from the wife of John Kerry may have financed the linkup of Cuba's Internet.

Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., is conducting her own investigation into where the Cuban government got $3.9 billion it ran through a Swiss bank.

Florida Gov. Jeb Bush on Monday said allegations by a leading Cuban government figure that he is urging his brother to invade the communist nation were the usual lies by Cuban officials.

The Cuban migration that started with President Fidel Castro's rise to power in 1959 has become a saga without end.

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