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Fidel Castro\u2019s oldest son, Fidel Castro D\u00edaz-Balart, died today in Havana at the age of 69, apparently from suicide, Cuban television reported.<\/p>\n
Castro D\u00edaz-Balart, the only son from Fidel Castro\u2019s marriage to Mirtha D\u00edaz-Balart and known as \u201cFidelito,\u201d had been suffering from a \u201cprofound depression\u201d for several months, according to the same source.<\/p>\n
He had been seeing a group of doctors for several months and as part of his treatment he initially required hospitalization and later had an out-patient follow up during his social reincorporation, the Cuban press reported.<\/p>\n
On his mother\u2019s side he was a direct relative of a family of renowned U.S. politicians and first cousin of Senator Mario D\u00edaz-Balart, who represented the interests of radical exile groups in Florida against the Cuban Revolution.<\/p>\n
Fidel Castro\u2019s firstborn, a nuclear physicist, was scientific advisor to the Council of State and vice president of the Academy of Sciences of Cuba. He studied in the former Soviet Union and graduated as a doctor in physics. He always preferred to stay far away from political questions, although he held important posts in the Cuban Atomic Power Commission from where he defended the peaceful use of this resource.<\/p>\n
EFE \/ AP \/ OnCuba<\/p>\n
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Fidel Castro\u2019s oldest son, Fidel Castro D\u00edaz-Balart, died today in Havana at the age of 69, apparently from suicide, Cuban television reported. Castro D\u00edaz-Balart, the only son from Fidel Castro\u2019s marriage to Mirtha D\u00edaz-Balart and known as \u201cFidelito,\u201d had been suffering from a \u201cprofound depression\u201d for several months, according to the same source. He […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3134,"featured_media":110964,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[33546],"class_list":["post-122025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n