Lincoln Diaz-Balart was a Republican member of the House
of Representatives from Miami, but wasn't always a Republican,
nor always from Miami. A Democrat until the mid-1980s,
he admired President Ronald Reagan and his ambassador to the
United Nations, Jeane Kirkpatrick, both of whom saw the world
as Diaz-Balart saw it. Both Diaz-Balart and Kirkpatrick left the
Dems for the GOP in the mid-1980s.
Born into a prominent Cuban political family in 1954, the family
fled Castro and his communist revolution to Miami, where they
became just as prominent. LD-B has a brother, Mario, who was
elected to the House in in 2002 and is still there.
Both brothers are heroes to the Cuban dissidents still in Cuba,
either not having yet escaped or unable to escape. Lincoln Diaz-
Balart passed away at 70. Requiescat in pace.
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