Asunción. Agencia IP.- The Republican Senator from the State of Florida in the United States, Marco Antonio Rubio, will arrive today following his tour of the region and responding to an invitation from the President of the Republic, Santiago Peña, last month.
The third meeting will be between the American lawmakers and the Paraguayan President. His visit aims to discuss bilateral relations and common priorities between the United States and Paraguay.
Members of his team will accompany him. During his stay in the country, he will hold meetings with the President of the Republic, Santiago Peña, with the diplomatic representation of the Republic of China (Taiwan), and with the American Ambassador Marc Ostfield and other officials of the US Embassy in Paraguay.
The visiting senator is the highest-ranking Republican member of the Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere Affairs, vice chairman of the Select Committee on Intelligence, and the most senior senator from Florida. His arrival in the country demonstrates the importance of cooperation between Paraguay and the United States.
Rubio, born in Miami, Florida, is an American Republican politician elected to the US Senate in 2010. He began his first term representing Florida the following year and is now in his first term. Before being elected senator, he was a municipal commissioner in West Miami and speaker of the Florida House of Representatives.
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He sought his party’s nomination in the 2016 United States presidential elections. He has spent much of his career in the Senate, focusing on foreign policy as a member of the Intelligence and Foreign Relations Committees.
The senator has authored hundreds of laws, such as reforming the US Department of Veterans Affairs, doubling the federal child tax credit, supporting small businesses during the pandemic, and securing funds for wetlands restoration.
He also drafted and passed the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, representing the most significant turning point in US-China relations in decades.
The senator’s parents left their native Cuba in 1956, during the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista, and moved to the United States. After graduating from the University of Florida in 1993, Rubio studied law at the University of Miami.