Mirta Diaz-Balart
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Mirta Francisca de la Caridad Díaz-Balart y Gutiérrez (born September 30, 1928) was Fidel Castro's first wife. She was a fellow student at the University of Havana, studying philosophy, when Fidel married her. She was the daughter of a prominent Cuban politician and mayor of the town of Banes.
They married on October 12, 1948 and divorced seven years later (while Castro was in exile) in 1955. They had one child, a son, Fidel Castro Díaz-Balart ("Fidelito", b. September 1, 1949). After the divorce, Castro was granted custody of their son and Mirta remarried Dr. Emilio Núñez Blanco, the son of a former Cuban Ambassador to the UN (now deceased). A story in the October 8, 2000 [1] edition of the Miami Herald claimed that she was then living in Spain and that occasional visits to Cuba had been arranged by Raúl Castro, her former brother-in-law.
Díaz Balart reportedly returned to Havana in 2002 to live with Fidelito and his family.[2]
Mirta Díaz-Balart has reportedly lost contact with much of her family in the US.[citation needed] Mirta Díaz-Balart is the aunt of current Republican and anti-Castro U.S. Congressmen Lincoln Diaz-Balart and Mario Diaz-Balart. She has two daughters by her second husband, Mirta and América Silvia, both residing in Spain with their families. She has numerous grandchildren.
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- ^ http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/fidel/castro-family.htm
- ^ Ann Louise Bardach : Cuba Confidential. p.67. "One knowledgable source claims that Mirta returned to Cuba in early 2002 and is now living with Fidelito and his family".
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