{"id":292385,"date":"2026-06-01T23:13:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T23:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/292385\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T23:13:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T23:13:10","slug":"trump-names-floridas-outgoing-house-speaker-from-miami-to-be-brazil-ambassador-sun-sentinel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/292385\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump names Florida\u2019s outgoing House speaker from Miami to be Brazil ambassador \u2013 Sun Sentinel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump is nominating Florida\u2019s outgoing House speaker to be ambassador to Brazil, the latest Miami Republican named to a prominent diplomatic post.<\/p>\n<p>Speaker Daniel Perez, who is finishing out his final term in the House this year as the chamber\u2019s leader, was on a list of ambassadorial nominations released by the White House on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s ambassador to Spain.<\/p>\n<p>Go to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/politics-government\/state-politics\/article315969597.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Herald.com<\/a> for the full report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Trump is nominating Florida\u2019s outgoing House speaker to be ambassador to Brazil, the latest Miami Republican named&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[28,29,225,227,226,114,373,5742,115,99,109,10645],"class_list":["post-292385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-florida","tag-florida-news","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news","tag-latest-headlines","tag-miami-dade-county","tag-national-politics","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-social","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}