At the head was Fidel Castro, and his second in command Abel Santamaría ... through the efforts of Castro's socially-connected wife, Mirta Díaz Balart, and a family member with influence ...

In his 1967 book Castro’s Cuba, Cuba’s Fidel, Lockwood describes in great detail his talks with Castro, which occurred at a white, L-shaped ranch home on what was then called the “Isle of ...

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 ...