On the Rise: Record Number of Cuban-Americans run for Congress in 2018
5 min readApr 30, 2018
On the night of August 29 1989, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen shattered a glass ceiling. She not only became the first Cuban-American elected to Congress, but the first Latina, of any background, to ever serve in the nation’s capitol.
While she had become the first Latina to serve in both chambers of the Florida Legislature in 1982 and 1986…
