Family
Former Hialeah Mayor Raul L. Martinez has launched Martinez & Fernandez Public Relations in Miami Lakes to provide counsel to a variety of clients in the field of public relations, media relations, government relations, brand management, crisis management and consulting. Mr. Martinez and his wife, Angela Callava, have two children, Aida Martinez-Ruiz and Raul L. Martinez Jr. and three grandchildren, Isabella Sofia Ruiz, Raul Leonides Martinez III, and Lucas Oliver Martinez.
Raul is the son of Leonides (Chin) Martínez-Calderín (1925–2007). Chin Martinez was the head of the taxi drivers retirement fund in Cuba during the 1950s, and used his connections to prevent his brother's assassination, Alfredo Martínez Calderín, who then joined Raul Castro in the II Frente Oriental Frank País. Alfredo's son, Rubén Martínez Puente, is presently a general in the Cuban Army.
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