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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