{"id":292395,"date":"2026-06-01T23:19:34","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T23:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/292395\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T23:19:34","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T23:19:34","slug":"trump-nominates-miamis-danny-perez-as-ambassador-to-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/292395\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump nominates Miami\u2019s Danny Perez as ambassador to Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Florida<\/p>\n

Florida House Speaker Daniel Perez, R-Miami, speaks to the media during the first day of the legislative session at the Florida State Capitol on Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026, in Tallahassee, Fla.<\/p>\n

Matias J. Ocner<\/p>\n

mocner@miamiherald.com<\/p>\n

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

Speaker Daniel Perez, who is finishing out his final term in the House this year as the chamber\u2019s leader<\/a>, was on a list of ambassadorial nominations released by the White House on Monday.<\/p>\n

Perez was not immediately available for comment.<\/p>\n

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

First elected to the Florida House in 2017, Perez, 38, represents the Westchester area in Miami-Dade County. The married father of three is also the in-house counsel for a healthcare company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida House Speaker Daniel Perez, R-Miami, speaks to the media during the first day of the legislative session…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292396,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-292395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292395","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=292395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}