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July 20, 2001 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—HOUSE H4369

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The Bono-Diaz Balart connection: a free Cuba, Dr. Biscet  6/30/2011 Miami Herald: "Bono has been personally lobbied on the Biscet's cause by Miami Rep. Mario Diaz Balart, who met with the rock star last week and last year to raise awareness of human-rights issues, Biscet and Orlando Zapata, another jailed activist who died in 2010 after staging a hunger strike on the island."

US Congressman Diaz-Balart Seeks to Punish Cuban-Americans  6/24/2011 Havana Times: "Puerto Rican legislator Rep. Serrano warned that we should not be trying to define what constitutes “family” because the scope varies among different ethnic groups and Virginia Democrat Rep. Moran decried the amendment as un-American and “totalitarian”… Florida Rep. Diaz-Balart said that remittances have become a huge cash windfall for the Cuban government, ignoring the fact that the money is helping the Cuban people to become less economically dependent on the government and that much of it has gone toward starting up small businesses."

Family travel to Cuba reverts to cruel Bush-era regs  6/23/2011 LAWG: "Today the House Appropriations Committee voted in favor of an amendment, put forth by Representative Mario Diaz-Balart of Florida (R-FL 21st), to the FY 2012 Financial Services Appropriations bill. This amendment, which passed by voice vote, rescinds changes that President Obama made in 2009 to Cuban-American family travel and remittances regulations. If this amendment were to become law, Cuban Americans would only be permitted to visit their families in Cuba once every three years, with a limited definition of what constitutes family, and with no humanitarian exceptions. Cuban Americans would also be limited in what they could send in remittances to Cuba."

History and the guest of stone  6/7/2011 Progreso Weekly: "Look at the fundamental data: Buyer: Nipe Bay Company, a subsidiary of the United Fruit Company. Area: 3,713 caballerias or more than 49,000 hectares. Total sale price: $100! ...We would have to laugh at the sale price: the ridiculous generates laughter among the spectators. But it was a tragic act. And Don Rafael Diaz-Balart, a lawyer for United in the Banes Division and ex-mayor of that town, defended those same fraudulent buyers on Aug. 9, 1940, in a memo requested by Mr. E.S. Walker, United Fruit Company administrator."

Who does Rep. Lincoln Díaz-Balart represent?  5/27/2009 Progreso Weekly 

The fate of the U.S. Embargo of Cuba rests on down and dirty campaigns in South Florida  10/30/2008 Ann Louise Bardach: "Two weeks ago, after absentee ballots arrived in the mail, a gentleman calling himself “Juan” visited several supporters of Raul Martinez, the Democratic former mayor of Hialeah who is challenging Lincoln Diaz-Balart. “Juan” offered the voters assistance in filling out their ballots, which he then promised to deliver to the elections office. “Juan” had been dispatched to pro-Martinez household by callers claiming to work for Martinez. In fact neither “Juan” nor his dispatchers work for Martinez nor the Democratic Party—and no one knows what happened to the ballots. The Miami Herald traced the phone number given to the duped residents to a consultant who works for Diaz-Balart. One duped voter summoned Jeff Garcia, the campaign manager for Martinez, who was able to videotape “Juan” as well as his car and license plate. Another mysterious visitor named “Angel” purporting to be from the office of Miami-Dade’s election supervisor was also videotaped. Cornered by a Martinez volunteer, “Angel” said he was employed by the Diaz-Balart office."

Vote Fraud Charges Fly In Diaz-Balart Contest For Congress  10/29/2008 MSNBC 

Ballots picked up, then disappear  10/25/2008 Miami Herald: "Hernandez said he worries his ballot was stolen or destroyed. He and two other voters told The Miami Herald that the man was dispatched by a woman caller who also said she worked for Martinez. But the phone number cited by the voters traces back to a consultant working for Martinez's rival, Republican congressman Lincoln Diaz-Balart."

Why Banes Does Not Miss the Diaz-Balarts Nor the United Fruit Co., 10/22/08 Alberto Jones

A political assassination attempt  8/18/2004 Radio Progreso: "On Aug. 11, in a news story headlined “Heinz-Kerry charity assailed, defended,” The Herald reported that three Miami Republican Congresspeople – Lincoln Díaz-Balart, his brother Mario, and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen – charged that “charitable donations from Teresa Heinz-Kerry's fortune ... may have indirectly helped the Cuban government link up to the Internet over a decade ago.”

Surfacing the Empire's Dirty Secrets - Subverting Brazil and Cuba  4/17/2004 Counterpunch: "I detect evidence, however, that Cuba may have employed some of its sophisticated biological weapons here in the United States. Observe the strange behavior of Lincoln Diaz Balart, (R-FL) – called “Low IQ Lincoln” by some of his colleagues. In March, Diaz Balart called on the President to assassinate Fidel Castro. Sources in the national security apparatus said they had not carried out any tests on Diaz-Balart’s cerebral cortex to determine whether he might have succumbed to some sophisticated bio-brain vapor that Cuban covert operatives had managed to slip into his breakfast cereal. His colleagues found it otherwise difficult to explain how a Member of Congress could otherwise be so oblivious to the law and to the implications of advocating such actions. That neither the media nor Congress responded in shock to Diaz Balart’s remarks, or Bolton’s unfounded charges, attests to the state of imperial denial under Emperor Bush."

Ileana, Lincoln, Money and the Media  3/7/2003 Radio Progresso, Miami: "The Miami Herald on Feb. 27 ran an interesting story that was translated and then mutilated by El Nuevo Herald. We wonder why. The story (“Congressional push for Latin media merger”) said in its opening paragraph that “U.S. Reps. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Lincoln Díaz-Balart have urged government regulators to approve a controversial $2 billion merger of leading Spanish-language broadcasters Univisión and Hispanic Broadcasting Corp.” The two legislators are Republicans from South Florida."

Diaz-balart Draws Map For Success  4/29/2001 Sun Sentinel: "Reapportionment battles of the past have forged unusual alliances -- like the 1992 coalition of white Republicans and black Democrats to force the creation of several black-majority congressional districts around the state… He also credits Diaz-Balart with a knack for working with different racial and ethnic groups."

A Cuba in Diaz Balart's Image or that of Today's Miami by Alberto Jones, 1998

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