death_place death_date birth_place birth_date article_title name
key biscayne , florida usa 6 may 2005 banes , cuba january 17 , 1926 rafael díaz-balart
 rafael lincoln díaz-balart y gutiérrez
rafael díaz-balart

rafael lincoln díaz-balart y gutiérrez -lrb- january 17 , 1926 in banes , cuba - may 6 , 2005 -rrb- 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 .
in 1955 , he gave a speech before the cuban house of representatives in opposition to the amnesty granted to his former brother-in-law , fidel castro , for his involvement in the 1953 attack on the moncada barracks .
díaz-balart was elected senator in 1958 , but was unable to take office due to fidel castro 's rise to power on january 1 , 1959 .
he founded `` la rosa blanca '' -lrb- the white rose -rrb- , the first anti-castro organization , in january 1959 .
he is the father of u.s. congressmen lincoln díaz-balart and mario diaz-balart , tv news journalist josé díaz-balart , and investment banker rafael díaz-balart .
he is the brother of mirta díaz-balart , fidel castro 's first wife .
his brother , waldo díaz-balart is a painter and a former actor in two movies by andy warhol in the 1960s .
his father , rafael díaz-balart was elected to the cuban house of representatives in 1936 and his brother-in-law , juan caballero , was elected to the cuban house of representatives in 1954 .
following his departure from cuba , rafael diaz-balart spent the following years living in spain .
he worked there as an insurance company executive with aseguros iberica la providencia .
this company had investments in real estate companies which developed property on the spanish riviera .
he then also spent several years serving as a diplomat for the government of costa rica in venezuela and paraguay .
he died on may 6 , 2005 in his key biscayne , florida home after a battle with leukemia .
the building that houses the florida international university college of law bears his name , `` rafael diaz-balart hall '' .
