Delia Ramírez
Democratic US Representative for Illinois's 3rd district; led 32-Democrat letter opposing potential Cuba military action.
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Led 32 House Democrats in the joint letter against potential Cuba military action
Cuba Dispatch: 32 House Democrats warn against Cuba action- Who is Delia Ramírez?
- Delia Ramírez is a Democratic US Representative for Illinois's 3rd district since January 2023 and the first Latina elected to Congress from a Midwest state. She led 32 House Democrats in a 14 May 2026 letter against potential Cuba military action.Source: US House
- What did the Ramírez letter on Cuba say?
- The 14 May 2026 letter to Defense, State and Homeland Security characterised potential US military action against Cuba as illegal, highly destabilising and catastrophic for the Cuban people, citing the island's energy crisis as a factor raising intervention risk.Source: US House
- Did any Republicans sign Ramírez's Cuba letter?
- No. All 32 signatories were Democrats. Senators Tim Kaine, Adam Schiff and Ruben Gallego, who lost the S.J.Res.124 discharge vote 51-47 on 29 April, endorsed the House initiative.Source: US House
Background
Delia Catalina Ramírez is a Democratic member of the US House of Representatives serving Illinois's 3rd congressional district since January 2023, and the first Latina ever elected to Congress from a Midwest state. On 14 May 2026 she led 32 House Democrats in a joint letter to the Secretaries of Defense, State and Homeland Security characterising potential US military action against Cuba as "illegal, highly destabilising, and catastrophic for the Cuban people".
The letter cites the island's energy crisis as a factor raising the risk of US military intervention and is procedurally distinct from Senate Joint Resolution 124, the war-powers discharge motion Senators Tim Kaine, Adam Schiff and Ruben Gallego lost 51-47 on 29 April. It is a letter route rather than a renewed Senate vehicle. The three senators publicly endorsed the House initiative. No Republican signatories joined.
Ramírez sits on the House Committee on Homeland Security and the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Her advocacy on Cuba aligns with her broader caucus position on US sanctions architectures, prioritising humanitarian impact assessments and procedural restraint on executive military authority. The 14 May letter expanded the war-powers opposition from three senators to 35 federal legislators and from one chamber to two, signalling the Democratic caucus assessed it could not win a second Senate discharge vote in May.
