The Lincoln Díaz-Balart Papers document the professional and personal activities of Lincoln Díaz-Balart in his capacity as U.S. Representative for Florida's 21st congressional district and as a member of the Florida House of Representatives and the Florida Senate. Materials in the collection include personal and legislative correspondence on issues such as education, the environment, federal and state budgets, human rights in Cuba, and immigration; and official documents on issues of immigration, international trade, Latin America and Cuba. The collection also contains press releases, audiovisual materials, photographs and clippings collected by Díaz-Balart.
Original order was retained, with papers arranged in two series: Florida House and Senate and United States Congress.
The bulk of the collection consists of copies of articles written by various authors about the human rights violations in Cuba. The articles were published in The Miami Herald and compiled by Suárez-Villa, professor in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning in School of Social Ecology at the University of California. The materials also include copies of correspondence to Luis Suárez-Villa regarding the compilation of the articles.
The papers document activities of Dr. Ricardo Bofill Pagés in capacity of the President of Cuban Committee for Human Rights. The materials include papers written about Bofill's work, clippings of Bofill's writings about human rights and reports.
The papers document activities of Miguel Olba Benito in a capacity of an Executive Secretary of Human Rights Cuban Commission. The materials include correspondence, clippings, documents, memorabilia, magazines and typescripts of writings on topics of the treatment of political prisoners in Cuba, presence of the Soviet military in Cuba and the atrocities of the communist regime in Cuba.
