Rafael José Díaz-Balart

Rafael José Díaz-Balart was a Cuban politician and mayor of the town of Banes. With his wife América Gutiérrez, he was the father of Rafael Lincoln 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.