María Elvira Salazar
The Public Record
María Elvira Salazar is a U.S. Representative for Florida's 27th congressional district, having taken office on January 3, 2021. A member of the Republican Party, she has a background in journalism and media, which informs her political communication style. Salazar has been vocal about her opposition to socialism, drawing on her family's experiences fleeing Cuba. She emphasizes the importance of freedom and democracy in her public statements and legislative priorities.
If this government shuts down this weekend because of the demands of the far right and this congress, it would severely undermine faith in the American democratic system.
The Biden Administration had tagged President Giammattei for being too conservative.
this has to do with being an American and caring about the American values being carried into our back yard
I introduced an immigration reform recently, the only immigration reform law that has been presented in Congress this cycle.
to impose a minimum penalty of 25 years to those who are convicted of child sex trafficking.
Indeed, and that's why we need to preserve that vibrancy in the Colombian democracy.
But I do not think that's what I asked you. I asked you the relationship between Colombia and Panama.
For the sake of my Colombian brothers and sisters, this must not happen and we, the United States and the U.S. Congress, should help the good people of Colombia.
Socialism is the creed of evil and has descended on Colombia, one of the crown jewels of Latin America.
But do not you think that now things have gotten worse and that Colombia is helping less?
But you know that it sends a very bad message that the United States is just not looking anymore.
This is a very important message that you're saying, Mr. Wells, and I'm very happy that you're doing--that you're saying it because the Colombians have a very independent, rigorous news media and we need to preserve them regardless of how…
We want to keep free and fair elections for the Colombians. Our concern is that Petro may stop that for the next 200 years.
Colombia supplies 97 percent of cocaine to the United States and the question is why did we stop monitoring the coca crops in Colombia?
As someone who represents the art and entertainment capital of the country, it is incredibly concerning that we would go after our own industries and workers just to seem tough on China.
He had one of the finest pens in the Cuban exile community in its 60 years of banishment from the island. There are very few writers who could capture the suffering of the Cuban people, a country that has paid the consequences of believing…





