Venezuelan oppo leader joins Cuban-born GOP lawmaker praising Trump for canceling Biden-Maduro oil deal

There, he lambasted Nicolas Maduro and condemned the idea that the U.S. under former President Joe Biden had ever concocted a deal with the dictator in the first place.

Trump also noted Maduro was not cooperating with U.S. immigration authorities trying to deport violent illegal aliens.

Gimenez noted how he and his family "fled for freedom" from a similar dictatorship in Cuba and that therefore any individual or group persecuted by dictatorial governments will "always have a friend in me."

"So will [Florida Republican Rep.] Mario [Diaz-Balart], so will [Florida Republican Rep.] Maria [Salazar], and so will [Sen.] Rick Scott, and so will President Donald J. Trump," Gimenez said before introducing several leaders, including Guaidó.

In an exclusive interview afterward with Fox News Digital, Gimenez said Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua are "all pretty much tied together" in the fact they are dictatorial regimes repressing their own people, who yearn to be free.

"I expect this is just the first step in trying to liberate these countries. The people of Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua deserve freedom," he said.

Gimenez said the answer should be to convert the "enemy states" into friends of the U.S., noting there is national interest on multiple levels.

"I'm confident that President Trump understands this, and he stands for freedom and he stands for democracy; not only in the United States, but in our hemisphere and around the world," he said.

During the gathering, Guaidó also offered remarks in Spanish praising Trump and slamming Central American despots.

"[W]e need a strong, prosperous and safe Latin America - and one that will be safe, with democracy and freedom," he said.

"It is accurate, correct and timely to confront that dictatorship and also [send] a message to those who today usurp [power] in Cuba and Nicaragua that they will not have impunity," Guaidó added.

In further remarks to Fox News Digital, Gimenez said he has full faith in his fellow Miamian, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, in his and Foggy Bottom's ability to confront these regimes that lie within America's own hemisphere.

"I don't have to speak to the secretary of state about Cuba; we both have Ph.D's in that," he quipped.