Miguel Diaz de la Portilla needs no introduction.

He is part of the Republican Cuban political powerhouse that is the Diaz de la Portillas. That’s the three brothers, Miguel and the younger Renier and Alex, who recently failed in a bid for the Miami-Dade County Commission. Older family members served in office back in pre-revolutionary Cuba with great-grandfather Horacio Diaz Pardo in the Cuban Senate.