Former Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart dies at 70, family says

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CNN en Español Cuban-American politician Lincoln Díaz-Balart died on Monday, his brothers Mario and José Díaz-Balart reported. The former Republican congressman was a representative of the Cuban exile community in Florida and, according to his brother José, he worked for 18 years in the United States House of Representatives. “Lincoln was an extraordinarily effective legislator, the author of the last immigration reform that has been seen in thi…

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Former Congressman Lincoln Díaz-Balart dies at 70

Former Rep. Lincoln Díaz-Balart, a prominent Cuban American figure and a longtime Republican politician who represented South Florida in Congress for nearly 20 years, died on Monday morning after battling cancer.

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Former Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart dead at 70

Former Florida congressman and brother to Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart is dead at 70. The Republican opposed Fidel Castro's regime.

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Former US Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart, a champion of democracy in Cuba, dies at 70

Former U.S. Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart, a Cuban American who fought tirelessly for a free Cuba and who spent 18 years in Congress, has died after battling cancer.

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Ileana Ros-Lehtinen grieves Lincoln Diaz-Balart: ‘The oppressed people of Cuba had no greater advocate’

Ileana Ros-Lehtinen was traveling out of Miami when she learned that Lincoln Díaz-Balart died on Monday. He was 70. Ros-Lehtinen, who made history as the first Hispanic woman to serve in Congress, released a statement saying it was a sad day.“The oppressed people of Cuba had no greater advocate for their freedom,” she wrote adding, “He made it his life’s mission to call for democracy and human rights for his native land.”Díaz-Balart and Ros-Leht…

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Lincoln Díaz-Balart, defender of immigrants and democracy for Cuba in Congress, dies at 70

Lincoln Díaz-Balart, a Cuban-American Republican politician who defended immigrants and fiercely opposed Fidel Castro’s regime to help restore democracy in his native Cuba while serving for almost two decades in Congress representing South Florida, died on Monday at 70.