Lincoln Diaz-Balart: “I have been an admirer for many years of the Jewish people. My family…”

On the recordApril 17, 2002

I have been an admirer for many years of the Jewish people. My family had to leave the country that I was born in, Cuba, where I am in the fourth generation of, in this instance, Cuban American, fourth generation in our family of public service which began in Cuba when my great grandfather and his brothers began fighting for independence there. And then my grandfather, after independence, became a lawyer. He was a country lawyer in eastern Cuba and was the lawyer for the Jewish community in Banas, in eastern Cuba. There was a very vibrant Jewish community in Cuba before the arrival of communism, a very vibrant, growing, prosperous, hard-working, honorable Jewish community in Cuba. Many of them are in south Florida today, and the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Deutsch) and I have the privilege of knowing them and working with them and really the honor of their friendship.

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Lincoln Diaz-Balart

Florida

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Expressing solidarity with Israel and reflecting on the Jewish community in Cuba.

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Lincoln Diaz-Balart: “I have been an admirer for many years of the Jewish people. My family had to leave the country that I was born in, Cuba…”

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