Rafael José Díaz-Balart
Rafael José Díaz- Balart( c. 1899 – 1985), was a Cuban politician and mayor of the town of Banes.
With his wife América Gutiérrez, he was the father of Rafael Díaz- Balart and progenitor of the Díaz- Balart family, an American political family.
He was briefly the father- in- law of Fidel Castro through Castro's marriage to Díaz- Balart's daughter, Mirta Diaz- Balart, but after the Cuban Revolution, he became a major anti-Castro figure living in exile in Miami, Florida.
Luís Castro (Salvadoran footballer)
Luís Alberto Castro Díaz( born May 19, 1981) is a Salvadoran footballer currently playing for East Bay FC Stompers in the National Premier Soccer League.
Waldo Díaz-Balart
Waldo Díaz- Balart( born Waldo Díaz- Balart y Gutiérrez on February 10, 1931) is a Cuban painter living in Madrid, Spain.
Fidel Castro Díaz-Balart
Fidel Ángel Castro Díaz-Balart (1 September 1949 – 1 February 2018) was a Cuban nuclear physicist and government official.
Frequently known by the diminutive
Fidelito, he was the eldest son of Cuban leader Fidel Castro and his first wife, Mirta Diaz-Balart.
Jose Diaz-Balart
José Díaz- Balart( born November 7, 1960) is a Cuban- American journalist and television anchorman.
He is currently the anchor for" Noticias Telemundo", the Telemundo network's early evening Spanish- language news program, as well as the network's public affairs Sunday morning program" Enfoque con Jose Diaz- Balart".
He is also anchor of NBC" Nightly News" on Saturdays.
Lincoln Díaz-Balart
Lincoln Rafael Díaz- Balart( born Lincoln Rafael Díaz- Balart y Caballero; August 13, 1954) is a Cuban- American attorney and politician.
He was the U.S. Representative for from 1993 to 2011.
He is a member of the Republican Party.
He previously served in the Florida House of Representatives and the Florida Senate.
He retired from Congress in 2011 and his younger brother, Mario Díaz- Balart, who had previously represented, succeeded him.
He is currently chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Leadership Institute.
After leaving Congress, he started a law practice and a consulting firm, both based in Miami, Florida.
Mario Díaz-Balart
Mario Rafael Caballero Díaz- Balart( born September 25, 1961) is a Republican U.S. Representative for Florida's 25th congressional district.
He was elected in 2002, and his current district includes much of southwestern Miami- Dade County, including the city of Hialeah, and much of the northern portion of the Everglades.
Fidel Castro
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (13 August 1926 – 25 November 2016) was a Cuban communist revolutionary and politician who governed the Republic of Cuba as Prime Minister from 1959 to 1976 and then as President of the Council of State and Council of Ministers from 1976 to 2008.
A Marxist–Leninist and Cuban nationalist
, Castro also served as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba from 1961 until 2011.
Under his administration, Cuba became a one-party communist state, while industry and business were nationalized and state socialist policies were implemented throughout society.
Born in Birán, Oriente as the son of a wealthy Spanish farmer, Castro adopted leftist anti-imperialist ideas while studying law at the University of Havana.
After participating in rebellions against right-wing governments in the Dominican Republic and Colombia, he planned the overthrow of Cuban President Fulgencio Batista, launching a failed attack on the Moncada Barracks in 1953.
After a year's imprisonment, Castro traveled to Mexico where he formed a revolutionary group, the 26th of July Movement, with his brother Raúl Castro and Che Guevara.
Returning to Cuba, Castro took a key role in the Cuban Revolution by leading the Movement in a guerrilla war against Batista's forces from the Sierra Maestra.
After Batista's overthrow in 1959, Castro assumed military and political power as Cuba's Prime Minister.
The United States came to oppose Castro's government and unsuccessfully attempted to remove him by assassination, economic blockade, and counter-revolution, including the Bay of Pigs Invasion of 1961.
Countering these threats, Castro aligned with the Soviet Union and allowed the Soviets to place nuclear weapons in Cuba, sparking the Cuban Missile Crisis – a defining incident of the Cold War – in 1962.
Adopting a Marxist–Leninist model of development, Castro converted Cuba into a one-party, socialist state under Communist Party rule, the first in the Western Hemisphere.
Policies introducing central economic planning and expanding healthcare and education were accompanied by state control of the press and the suppression of internal dissent.
Abroad, Castro supported anti-imperialist revolutionary groups, backing the establishment of Marxist governments in Chile, Nicaragua, and Grenada, as well as sending troops to aid allies in the Yom Kippur, Ogaden, and Angolan Civil War.
These actions, coupled with Castro's leadership of the Non-Aligned Movement from 1979 to 1983 and Cuba's medical internationalism, increased Cuba's profile on the world stage.
Following the Soviet Union's dissolution in 1991, Castro led Cuba through the economic downturn of the "Special Period", embracing environmentalist and anti-globalization ideas.
In the 2000s, Castro forged alliances in the Latin American "pink tide" – namely with Hugo Chávez's Venezuela – and signed Cuba up to the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas.
In 2006, Castro transferred his responsibilities to Vice President Raúl Castro, who was elected to the presidency by the National Assembly in 2008.
The longest-serving non-royal head of state in the 20th and 21st centuries, Castro polarized world opinion.
His supporters view him as a champion of socialism and anti-imperialism whose revolutionary regime advanced economic and social justice while securing Cuba's independence from American imperialism.
Critics view him as a dictator whose administration oversaw human-rights abuses, the exodus of a large number of Cubans, and the impoverishment of the country's economy.
Castro was decorated with various international awards and significantly influenced different individuals and groups across the world.
Mirta Diaz-Balart
Mirta Francisca de la Caridad Díaz- Balart y Gutiérrez( born 30 September 1928) was the first wife of Fidel Castro.
She was the daughter of América Gutiérrez and Rafael José Díaz- Balart, a prominent Cuban politician and mayor of the town of Banes, Cuba.
She was a philosophy student at the University of Havana, when she met and married Fidel.
Rafael Díaz-Balart
Rafael Lincoln Díaz- Balart y Gutiérrez( January 17, 1926 – May 6, 2005) was a Cuban politician.
Díaz- Balart served as Majority Leader of the Cuban House of Representatives and Under- Secretary of Interior during the presidency of Fulgencio Batista.

Question: Where was the father of Fidel Castro Díaz-Balart born?
Answer: Birán