Her father, José Lorenzo Díaz, was an administrator in the Cuban judicial system, working in the Juzgado de Primera Instancia (Court of First Instance) of the broader Colón area until his death in 1954.

[2] By the end of the decade and Batista's rule, Cazañas would serve as a highly ranked Juez de Instrucción (Judge of Instruction).

[13][14] The Cazañas family opposed Fidel Castro and, following the Cuban Revolution, some were able to leave the island to take refuge in the United States and seek life in democracy there.

Therefore, his son, Francisco Eduardo (Pedro Pablo's father), was born in New Rochelle, giving him dual citizenship with the United States and Cuba.

As an adult she owned the vast finca Buena Vista overlooking Varadero, its champion horses, and yacht while her husband Francisco would manage the estate's staff and grounds.

[26] The couple, which traveled frequently to the United States and would occasionally reside there, first filed their claims with the commission in 1902,[27] the year Pedro Pablo was born.

Their claims were finally settled in 1908 when the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States awarded the couple total compensation of $13,138[28] ($9,738 to Enriqueta and $3,400 to Francisco), equivalent to over $360,000 in 2020, adjusted for inflation.

In addition to the Perazas, Bobadillas, García's and Martín's, he is directly descended from several other ancient Spanish and other European (French, English) noble and royal families, including the Guzmán, Haro, Lara, de Luna, Martel, and more distantly, the Plantagenets.

With the escalation of the Vietnam War in the mid-1960s, he voluntarily enlisted in the United States Army to serve his adopted country and received the rank of SP-4 as an Armor Reconnaissance Specialist.

[35] He died in combat in 1967 at the age of 22, his death was covered in both Spanish and English[36] media, including the Diario Las Américas, which described him as the son of "Doctor Pedro Cazañas.

"[4] He received the Purple Heart for his actions in battle and is included in the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.[35][37] Both his daughters, Raquel and Marta, would have high-profile marriages to Cuban leaders.

Raquel married Rene de la Huerta, a noted psychiatrist, writer, and a leader of the Agrupación Católica Universitaria in Cuba, Spain, and the United States.