Diaz-Balart, Mirta (c. 1928–)
Diaz-Balart, Mirta (c. 1928–)
Cuban wife of Castro. Name variations: Mirtha or Mirta Diaz Balart de Nunez. Born Mirta Diaz Balart de Nunez, c. 1928, in Banes, Cuba; dau. of a general; sister of Raphael Diaz Balart (undersecretary to Ramon Hermida, a minister of the interior to Batista); m. Fidel Castro (dictator of Cuba), Oct 12, 1948 (div. 1955); children: son Fidel Jr. (b. Sept 1, 1949).
The only known wife of Fidel Castro, was a student in the Faculty of Philosophy at Havana University when they married (he was still in law school); divorced him while he was in exile in Mexico (1955); remarried and moved to US, then Spain; went through a long custody battle over son.
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