President Trump is nominating Florida’s outgoing House speaker to be ambassador to Brazil, the latest Miami Republican named to a prominent diplomatic post.
Speaker Daniel Perez, who is finishing out his final term in the House this year as the chamber’s leader, was on a list of ambassadorial nominations released by the White House on Monday.
If confirmed by the Republican controlled U.S. Senate, Perez will join a small diplomatic corps from the Miami area: Panama Ambassador Kevin Cabrera is a former Miami-Dade County Commissioner; Peru Ambassador Bernie Navarro ran a mortgage company in Coral Gables, and healthcare executive Benjamin Leon is Trump’s ambassador to Spain.
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