Talk:Díaz-Balart family

Requested move 3 February 2018

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The result of the move request was: page moved per the discussion below. Dekimasuよ! 00:54, 10 February 2018 (UTC)

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Diaz-Balart → Diaz-Balart family – All notable persons sharing this composed surname are members of the same family, which is an historically prominent political family. This should really be an article on the family itself. Anything notable about the surname components should be in individual articles on Díaz (surname) and a currently missing article on Balart. bd2412 T 15:01, 3 February 2018 (UTC)

• I have no problem with a move and agree with the nominator's last sentence. However, this currently isn't so much an article as it is a DAB page filled with partial title matches. —  AjaxSmack  14:02, 4 February 2018 (UTC)
  • That conversion would be fairly easy. Sources are plentiful.[1], [2], [3], [4], [5] bd2412 T 15:39, 4 February 2018 (UTC)
    • OK, but I'm not volunteering. —  AjaxSmack  17:32, 4 February 2018 (UTC)
      • No problem. I'll do it right here. bd2412 T 19:19, 4 February 2018 (UTC)
        • In that case, I support a move to Díaz-Balart family (w/ the accent reflecting the preference of the majority of the members). —  AjaxSmack  04:05, 9 February 2018 (UTC)

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Draft

The Díaz-Balart family is a Cuban-American political family primarily composed of the descendants of Cuban politician Rafael Díaz-Balart, and including two members of the United States Congress. In 2003, the family was voted "Best Power Family" in the annual Miami New Times "Best Of Miami" issue, which asserted that the family managed to "carve out a new U.S. Congressional district expressly for an ambitious family member", and also noted that the father and grandfather of the U.S. politicians "were important members of the ruling oligarchy during the fearsome reign of Fulgencio Batista".

Members of the family include:

• Rafael José Díaz-Balart (c. 1899 – 1985), Cuban politician and mayor of the town of Banes; with his wife América Gutiérrez:
  • Rafael Díaz-Balart (January 17, 1926 – May 6, 2005), Cuban politician; with his wife, Hilda Caballero Brunet, Díaz-Balart had four sons:
    • Rafael J. Díaz-Balart (born 1951), banker
    • Lincoln Díaz-Balart (born August 13, 1954), U.S. Representative
    • Jose Diaz-Balart (born November 7, 1960), television news anchor
    • Mario Díaz-Balart (born September 25, 1961), U.S. Representative
  • Mirta Díaz-Balart (born 30 September 1928), sister of Rafael, was the first wife of Cuban leader Fidel Castro; they had one son and then divorced prior to the Cuban Revolution; she then remarried, to Emilio Núñez Blanco:

    With Fidel Castro:

    • Fidel Castro Díaz-Balart ("Fidelito"; September 1, 1949 – February 1, 2018), Cuban physicist, Fidel Castro's first-born son

    With Emilio Núñez Blanco:

    • Mirta Núñez Díaz-Balart
    • América Silvia Núñez Díaz-Balart
  • Waldo Díaz-Balart (born February 10, 1931), brother of Rafael and Mirta, Cuban painter

It's a start. bd2412 T 19:36, 4 February 2018 (UTC)

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