Fidel Castro Diaz-Balart dead at 68: Eldest son of Cuban leader dies in apparent suicide in Havana
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The eldest son of Fidel Castro has died in an apparent suicide.
Fidel Castro Diaz-Balart, known as 'Fidelito' because of how much he looked like his father, had been receiving medical treatment for depression for several months, local media reports.
He was found dead on Thursday morning in the Cuban capital Havana.
There were unconfirmed reports online that Fidelito shot himself.
A nuclear physicist who studied in the former Soviet Union, he had been working as a scientific counselor to the Cuban Council of State and Vice-president of the Cuban Academy of Sciences at the time of his death.
(Image: Reuters)
(Image: Reuters)
His father, who built a communist state on the doorstep of the United States during the Cold War, died just over a year ago, on November 26, 2016, aged 90.
His mother is Mirta Diaz-Balart, 89, the only woman Castro ever married.
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