Frank Diaz-Silveira is an anti-Castro Cuban militant. He was also an attorney in Florida and a former candidate for the Florida Senate

Florida Senate

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, Mayor of Miami, Florida House of Representatives

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 and Miami City Commission.

Family

Mr. Diaz-Silveira is the son of the imminent Abogado-Notario (attorney-notary) Francisco Diaz-Silveira Lopez

Francisco Diaz-Silveira Lopez

Francisco Diaz-Silveira Lopez , was a prominent Abogado-Notario in Havana, Cuba from the 1930s. until the Cuban Revolution of 1959....

 and Ana Gloria Tamargo-Sanchez (sister of Margarita Tamargo-Sanchez

Margarita Tamargo-Sanchez

Dr. Margarita Tamargo-Sanchez was a prominent pharmacist and bacteriologist in Cuba....

). He is also the grandson of Francisco Diaz-Silveira

Francisco Diaz-Silveira

Francisco Díaz-Silveira was a well known Cuban journalist, writer and poet....

 and the second-cousin of prominent builder, Alonso J. del Portillo-Tamargo and the Cuban diplomat Modesto F. Fernandez Diaz-Silveira

Modesto F. Fernandez Diaz-Silveira

Modesto Francisco Fernandez Diaz-Silveira is a Cuban government official that travels often around the world talking about the environment....

. Mr. Diaz-Silveira was married to Adela Jaramillo-Mora and they had four children, Adela Jane (1962- ), Frank (1963- ), Alberto (1965- ), and Eddy (1969-). He later married in 1986 Armantina Forns-Cuervo, but that marriage also ended in divorce in 1991.

Education

He received his law degree at the University of Havana in 1957 and then graduated in 1975 from the American Law Program at the University of Miami.

Anti-Castro activities

On November 16, 1960, Mr. Diaz-Silveira led a group of young Cubans to attack the Cuban Embassy in Lima

Lima

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, Peru

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; taking documents of the archives of the diplomatic seat. On August 9, 1961, he was ejected from the Inter-American Economic and Social Conference for causing a fist fight and for interrupting a two hour speech being given by Ernesto Guevara.

Political races

He first ran for office in 1975 for a seat on the City of Miami Commission, he lost. In 1976, he ran for the Florida House of Representatives, he lost. On November 2, 1982 Mr. Diaz-Silveira received 20,077 votes out of 49,041 votes in the Florida Senate

Florida Senate

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 race of District 34, against the incumbent Joe Gersten and in 1983, he ran for Mayor of the City of Miami, which he lost again.