Cuban-American lobby

Organizations

  • Congress Committee for a Democratic Cuba
  • Cuba Democracy PAC U.S.
  • Cuban American National Foundation ( CANF )
  • Cuba Befreiungsrat

Cuba - Americans in the U.S. Congress

Former senator:

  • Mel Martinez, Republican, Florida

Members of the House of Representatives:

  • Mario Diaz- Balart, Republican, 21st District of Florida
  • David Rivera, Republican, 25th District of Florida
  • Ileana Ros -Lehtinen, Republican, 27th District of Florida
  • Albio Sires, Democrat, 13th District of New Jersey

Former members of the House of Representatives:

  • Lincoln Diaz- Balart, Republican, 21st District of Florida

Cubans in the service of the U.S. Government

  • Eduardo Aguirre, U.S. ambassador to Spain and Andorra
  • Emilio T. Gonzalez, former colonel of the U.S. armed forces and current director for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration
  • Carlos Gutierrez, former CEO of Kellogg Company and former U.S. Secretary of Commerce under the presidency of George W. Bush.
  • Adolfo A. Franco, deputy bureau chief of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) for Latin America and the Caribbean
  • Ana Carbonell, personnel manager of Representatives Lincoln Diaz- Balart
  • Nilda Pedrosa, a former official of the State Department Director of Policy and superior of Senator Mel Martinez

More politically active Cuban - Americans

  • Otto Reich, a former senior official in the government under the presidency of Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush. From January 2003 to June 2004 he was Special Envoy of the Western Hemisphere of the Foreign Ministry of the Bush administration.
  • Armando Valladares, former political prisoner. U.S. Ambassador to the UN Human Rights Commission in Geneva during the reign of Ronald Reagan and George Bush.
  • Mauricio Claver - Carone, chairman of the US- Cuba Democracy PAC
  • Gus Machado
  • Remedio Diaz Oliver
  • Carlos Alberto Montaner, a writer and journalist, Chairman of the Unión Liberal Cubana ( ULC ), Vice President of Liberal International

Politically active artists and scientists

  • Frank Calzón, Center for a Free Cuba (Center for a Free Cuba)
  • Antonio de la Cova, scientists
  • Paquito D' Rivera, musician
  • Gloria Estefan, singer
  • Enrique Ros, a writer of historical topics
  • Andy García, writer, actor, producer, director
  • Rafael Román Martel, poet, journalist

Journalists in the Spanish-speaking media

  • Ninoska Pérez Castellón, talk show host
  • María Elvira Salazar, talk show host
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