Father of two, husband, Currently developing industrial real estate. 19th and first Hispanic Lt. Governor of Florida 🇨🇺🇺🇸🇮🇱
Miami, Florida
Joined July 2010
- Tweets3.9K
- Following1.3K
- Followers7.2K
- Likes6.9K
This is a great choice by @ByronDonalds! I've know @BryanAvilaFL since he was a candidate to succeed me in the Florida House and I look forward to him being a successor as LG. This team will do a great job for Florida!
Carlos Lopez-Cantera retweeted
Live look at President Trump filling the Lincoln memorial reflecting pool 🚿 😂😭
Carlos Lopez-Cantera retweeted
10 TRUTHS ABOUT FLORIDA
1. We don't do income tax.
2. We don't do sanctuary cities.
3. We don't do mask mandates.
4. We don't do men in girls' sports.
5. We don't do soft-on-crime state attorney.
6. We don't do CRT in classrooms.
7. We don't do squatters' rights.
8. We don't do open borders.
9. We don't apologize for any of it.
10. And we're not going to start now.
WATCH THIS! This is Cuba today. Appreciate @nickshirleyy and his team for risking their safety to make this.
🚨Inside Communist-Controlled Cuba:
As Cuba faces its largest humanitarian crisis in years amid growing tensions with the US, I went to see what 60+ years of communism has done to a country.
Within 24 hours I was planning my escape out of the country after being followed by their intelligence agents, and a 2 star general waited to interrogate me outside my hotel room at 4 AM. Right now Cuba has no oil or gas, 7/10 people are going hungry, there is no medicine and some haven't even had eggs in a year.
In communism there is no freedom of speech or press, and I was almost taken hostage for asking about communism. This is a look into Cuba like never before, no one truly knows how bad it is until now.
Like and share this video like wildfire!
Carlos Lopez-Cantera retweeted
Chuck Norris Was a Great Action Star -- but Politics May Overshadow His Legacy variety.com/2026/film/opinio…
Carlos Lopez-Cantera retweeted
Eleven years ago Sen. Rubio warned USA & wanted to make sure it was written in history.
It’s a good dang thing he’s in the place he is today & we don’t have some knucklehead trying to run the show.
Operation Epic Fury couldn’t have had a better Sec. State!
Carlos Lopez-Cantera retweeted
Palantir just chose Miami.
Cue the predictable take:
“Florida doesn’t have the engineering talent.”
Cool. Let’s run the numbers.
Florida produces 89% as many engineers per capita as California.
Eighty. Nine. Percent.
That’s with:
• Zero Stanford
• Zero Caltech
• No 10-campus UC empire
What Florida does have:
• 7 R1 research universities
• $3.3B in annual research spend
• The largest aerospace engineering program in the country
• SpaceX. Blue Origin. Lockheed. L3Harris. Northrop. All building here.
Now the part nobody on Tech X wants to discuss:
Florida tuition: ~$6,500/year
California tuition: $14,000+
Florida income tax: 0%
California income tax: up to 13.3%
So let’s compare:
Cost to produce an engineer → Florida wins.
Cost to retain an engineer → Florida wins.
Engineer purchasing power → Florida wins.
That’s arithmetic.
The ROI per engineering degree in Florida might be the highest in America.
The people mocking Florida are arguing with a 2015 version of the state.
The 2026 version is building rockets, defense systems, AI companies and so much more.
You can keep the narrative.
We’ll keep the compounding.
Carlos Lopez-Cantera retweeted
Robert Duvall refused to work with Spielberg and DreamWorks again after Spielberg visited Fidel Castro in 2002, noting the hypocrisy of him making films like Schindlers List while visiting a dictator.
RIP.
Carlos Lopez-Cantera retweeted
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: @SecRubio's widely acclaimed address at the Munich Security Conference
