At the age of 68, Fidel ngel Castro Diaz-Balart, the eldest son, was found dead on the morning of Thursday, February 1, 2018. According to the press, he committed suicide ..

It is known that the eldest son was engaged in nuclear physics, was considered a highly qualified specialist in the field. In narrow circles he was nicknamed "Fidelito" or "Little Fidel".

The reason for the suicide of Fidel Castro Jr.

“Fidel Castro Diaz-Balart, who had been undergoing treatment for severe depression for several months, committed suicide this morning” (Thursday, February 1, Ed.), The official Granma newspaper in Cuba reported.

State television, in turn, said that Fidel had been receiving treatment for prolonged depression in the last months after his hospitalization. Unable to cope with his condition, he decided to commit suicide at the age of 68.

Who was Fidel Angel Castro Diaz-Balart and what he did during his lifetime

Castro Diaz-Balart was born after his father's marriage to Mirta Diaz-Balart, the daughter of an influential politician. His mother's family members became prominent figures in the anti-Castro community in Florida, and his cousin Mario Diaz-Balart became a congressman.

Castro Diaz-Balart, studied in the Soviet Union and briefly headed Cuba's nuclear power program until he moved in with his father. He led the program for the construction of the Juragua nuclear power plant from 1980 to 1992. He has three children - Mirta Maria, Fidel Antonio and Jose Raul - from Natalia Smirnova, whom he met in Russia. After a divorce from Smirnova, he married Victoria Barreiro, a Cuban woman.

JoInfoMedia's editors remind that the Cuban leader himself died in 2016 at the age of 90.

Miami.- His name was "Fidelito" (little Fidel) because he looked like two peas in a pod like his father, the late Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro.

But that was where the similarities ended.

The late Cuban leader's eldest son, Fidel Castro Diaz-Balart, committed suicide after a prolonged depression, Cuban state media reported on Thursday. He was 68 years old. This well-read, Russian-educated scientist had a difficult life and a rather difficult relationship with his father, who even publicly fired him once.

Fidelito was the son of Fidel from his first marriage to Mirta Diaz-Balart. He became a symbol of the complexities of life in Cuba in the post-revolutionary period. After a high-profile divorce from Fidelito's mother, his famous father kidnapped his young son when he visited him in Mexico. This was after Fidelito's mother took him to the lair of Yankee imperialism - the United States of America.

“I can't even think about my son spending at least a night under the same roof with my most disgusting enemies, so that his innocent cheeks would cover these Judas with their kisses,” the late Cuban leader wrote to his sister.

Later, when Castro remarried, Fidelito became one of the many children in Fidel's brood, of which there are at least seven or even 11. Fidelito was also the cousin of violent anti-communists and politicians from Florida - Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart and a former member of the House of Representatives Lincoln Diaz-Balart.

The most famous moment in Fidelito's life was the worst moment for him.

In the 1980s, Castro Sr. appointed his son to lead the Cuban nuclear power program. His brainchild was the Juragua nuclear power plant. This complex, built with the assistance of Moscow, was supposed to supply electricity to the communist island and give it an impetus for development in difficult times for the economy. It seemed that the eldest son of the Castro dynasty was destined for greatness.

But those dreams collapsed with the fall of the Berlin Wall. The collapse of the Soviet Union temporarily deprived Cuba of its main benefactor. At the same time, insurmountable technical and financial difficulties put an end to the Cuban nuclear power plant, which has become an abandoned relic of the Cold War. Castro Sr. publicly blamed his son for everything and in 1992 unceremoniously fired him.

"There was no voluntary dismissal," Castro announced at the time, as Ann Louise Bardach writes in his book "Without Fidel." ...

Fidelito later received some important appointments, and at the time of his death he was serving as scientific adviser to the Cuban State Council and vice-president of the Cuban Academy of Sciences. But he never recovered from that blow. Few considered him a serious player in Cuban politics, where his uncle Raul Castro is now playing the main role, who is due to step down in April.

According to experts, Fidelito has never been considered a replacement candidate.

"He had some physical resemblance to Fidel, but nothing more," said former Cuba expert Arturo Lopez-Levy, now a political science professor at Texas State University's Rio Grande Valley. "He never had the charisma that his father had."

The official organ of the Communist Party of Cuba, the Granma newspaper, published a short five-paragraph obituary, in which it noted that Fidelito had been treated for several months for depression, including in a hospital. At the time of his death on Thursday, he was undergoing outpatient treatment.

The obituary does not say how Castro Jr. committed suicide.

“He devoted his entire professional life to science and received several important national and foreign awards,” said Granma.

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Do we know well about him, about Castro - not a politician, but a person? About his family, his passions. Or is he, like Arafat, “married to the Cuban revolution”? Below is the official and unofficial information on this issue. “In the eyes of the Cubans, Castro is a superman; it’s not without reason that he received the nickname“ Horse ”on the island,” said Carlos Montaner (dissident writer, son of the famous Cuban liberal Alberto Montaner). country as a woman. Fidel becomes frantically excited about using his people as a female. Perhaps no Latin American ruler has experienced this feeling as much as the Cuban leader. "

Such people who fled the island, of course, speak with irony about the oddities and quirks of the commandant. But he, of course, was and remains one of the most colorful political figures in the world.

Officially, there were three women in Fidel's life. Castro recognized his seven children, but, according to other information, there are at least fifty of them.

Fidel's first wife was Mirta Diaz Ballart. She was a fragile, charming blonde, which is extremely rare for Cuba. Castro saw her and told his friends that this woman would belong to him. He was told that it was almost impossible - she was the daughter of the minister, General Batista! But Castro objected: "Nothing is impossible, I'll just marry her!" A year later, in 1948, they played a wedding according to all the canons of the then bourgeois world of Cuba. The parents of the newlyweds put together and paid for their honeymoon in the United States, where all successful young couples went as usual.

Soon a son was born, who was given the name Fidelito - the only legitimate child of Fidel Castro. Many years later, he headed the Atomic Energy Agency in socialist Cuba, but was then fired overnight. They say he blurted out something unnecessary about his father. Fidelito was married to a Russian, then divorced and began courting a Spanish aristocrat. Nevertheless, Fidelito is called (along with Raul Castro - Fidel's brother) one of the most likely successors of Fidel.

For several years the couple lived in peace and harmony. However, in the early fifties, when Castro was already closely hatching his revolutionary projects, he met Nati Revuelta, one of the most beautiful women of the Havana bohemia of that time, on his life path. She was married to an old Cuban doctor, and this did not prevent the ardent revolutionary from taking possession of the beauty. She began to help her lover develop revolutionary plans to overthrow General Batista.

Numerous secret meetings of lovers began against the background of the preparation of patriotic revolutionaries for a nationwide uprising against the rotten regime. In all these plans, Nati played the most active role. After Castro divorced Mirta, Nati gave birth to his daughter Alina. Many years later, when Alina was getting married, the commandante in a narrow circle (although the whole Cuba knew about it) admitted that she was his daughter.

The Comandante was very fond of his daughter, but that did not stop Alina from fleeing Cuba in 1993 using a fake Spanish passport. It was Alina who opened the veil of secrecy over Fidel's personal life by writing a frank book of memoirs, she also told about her brothers and sisters. It is noteworthy that all their names begin with the letter "A": Alex, Alexander, Alejandro, Antonio, Angelita ... This is because the leader has a middle name - Alejandro. Now the youngest son of Castro is only 17. The eldest is 49 (Fidelito). This is because the full name of the leader is Fidel Castro Alejandro Rus, but few people know about this. Even now, 10 years after her escape from the homeland of her daughter Alina, Fidel forbids mentioning her name in his presence.

All the last children of Castro were born of a woman named Deliv Soto, Fidel's long-term love, she was his common-law wife for almost a quarter of a century.

In addition, Castro has another child, Jorge Angel, from a woman known in Cuba as "Amparo". The last legal wife of the indefatigable commandant was Celia Sanchos, secretary and ardent assistant. She committed suicide in the mid-80s.

In the early 60s, Castro's ex-wife Mirta tried to leave her son Fidelito in the United States. Then the Cuban intelligence stole him and brought him back to the island. So the FBI didn't even have time to gasp.

Fidel is currently married to a woman named Dalia. Fidel Castro's family life is captured on videotapes smuggled out of Cuba by an ex-girlfriend of one of his sons in 2002.

The videotapes show Fidel getting ready for dinner and relaxing on the sofas that adorn one of his residences in Havana. For the first time, there was an opportunity to get a glimpse of Fidel's residence that most Cubans had never seen.

State media outlets are prohibited from disseminating any information about the Castro family and where they live for security reasons.

Next to Castro, in public, you can only see his eldest son, Fidel Jr. (Fidelito), who holds a post in the Cuban government.

The cassettes were taken from the island by Dashiell Torralba, who for two years had a relationship with Antonio Castro, an orthopedic surgeon by profession.

Deshiel, 27, currently hiding in one of the Latin American countries, said that she stole the videotapes in revenge against the current 76-year-old wife of the dictator Dahlia Castro.

Ms. Torralba claims that Ms. Castro has ended her two-year romance with Antonio, as she is the niece of Diocles Torralbo, a former Cuban Minister of Transportation, who was jailed in 1998 on corruption charges.

It is also reported that the filming was carried out mainly by Castro's older children. The total duration of the video material is 40 minutes. In the episode titled "The Secret Life of Fidel Castro," Punto Cero, Castro's main residence located in the west of Havana, can be seen.

Fidel Castro, dressed in his home clothes, examines the cutlery on the table set for dinner. His grandchildren play with relatives, and his son Antonio drives a scooter around the courtyard.

And all this against the backdrop of a spacious building, carefully designed garden landscape and designer gizmos that many members of the Castro family, as it turned out, are wearing. The façade of the villa is decorated by local artisans. The large-screen TV receives broadcasts of foreign news channels.

There was no official comment from the Cuban government.

In general, Fidel produces just the same mystical effect on the weaker sex. According to eyewitnesses: “... Women are especially susceptible to the“ charms ”of Fidel Castro. In the mid-80s, a conference of Latin American women who oppose the payment of the external debt of the countries of the region was held in Havana. Traditionally, after the end of the conference, a reception was held at the Havana Palace of the Revolution. Hundreds of Hispanic women of all ages, races and professions conversed calmly in dozens of groups. In the spacious hall there was a polyphonic rumble, which instantly turned into the rolling rumble of a mountain river the moment Fidel Castro entered. The hefty guards by some miracle restrained the monstrous pressure of hundreds of women stretching their hands to their idol. Fidel himself stood motionless and only smiled slightly across the palisade of his bodyguards. The scene gave the impression of mass insanity, many women were crying, some fell to the floor and squealed with delight ... "

If you are interested in Cuban history and personality of Fidel Castro, then buy the book by N. Leonov and V. Borodaev "Fidel Castro. Political Biography". According to some information, one of the authors of this book (NS Leonov) is a friend of Fidel Castro and knows him well as a person.

Brief information about N.S. Leonov

Born on August 22, 1928 in the Ryazan region. Retired Lieutenant General. Professor of MGIMO. Doctor of Historical Sciences. Holder of many orders and medals. Member of the Council of the Ibero-American Center at the MGIMO Alumni Association. He graduated from high school with a gold medal and the KGB High School. Graduated from MGIMO. He served in the army (in the Airborne Forces). From 1958 to 1991 served in the system of the State Security Committee of the USSR, was the deputy head of the First Main Directorate (Foreign Intelligence Service) of the KGB of the USSR, head of the Analytical Directorate of the KGB of the USSR. Immediately after the August events of 1991, he submitted his resignation letter. After retirement, he is actively involved in teaching and journalistic activities. Leonid Shebarshin, former head of Soviet intelligence: "It is very interesting to talk to him on any topic, he has great erudition."

Seregin Alexander (Alexandro Seregin) - Russian public figure, politician, historian, likely illegitimate son of Fidel Castro.

Childhood and family

Alexander was born on January 14, 1964 in the village of Klimovo (Novozybkovsky district of the Bryansk region). He is only half Russian. As the family legend says, his parents met in 1963 in the Tver region. Alexander's mother served as an assistant cook at the Zavidovo special facility. It was there that during an official visit to the USSR, Fidel Castro, his alleged father, stayed.

Immediately after the death of the Cuban leader, the Russian media revealed Alexander's family secret. The Russia TV channel dedicated an hour-long talk show to this version, on the air of which Alexander Seregin was tested on a lie detector on the air of the TV channel and confirmed that he was telling the truth.

Illegitimate son of Comandante Castro lives in Moscow

The hero of the program and this given biography was named in honor of the leader of the Cuban revolution - Alejandro Castro Ruz. In the same 1963, Alexander's mother, Valentina Udolskaya, married Vladimir Matveyevich Seregin.

In 1971, the whole family moved to the Algerian People's Democratic Republic - there they needed specialists-geologists, who was Alexander's stepfather. In Algeria, the boy graduated from grade 4 of primary school, where his younger brother Matvey was born in 1975.

In 1977, the Seryogins returned to the USSR, and on the next trip abroad, the family went to Cuba. On the island of Liberty, Alexander graduated from high school at the USSR Embassy. Classmates remembered Alexander as a great lover of spearfishing and a good friend.

At the age of 18, Alexander Seregin returned to the USSR and entered the history department of the Bryansk Pedagogical Institute. His studies were interrupted in 1983-1985 - at this time Seregin was repaying his debt to the Motherland. Demobilized, the young man resumed his studies.

Further life of the illegitimate son of Fidel Castro

In 1992, Alexander Seregin moved to Moscow. He settled in the village of Barvikha, known today to every Russian citizen, where he lives today. During the dashing 90s, he was engaged in handicraft business and trade. At the same time, he became a member of the Chamber of Crafts of the Moscow Region.


In 1996, Seregin was detained by law enforcement agencies in Bryansk on the day of the presidential election. On the so-called "day of silence" he drove around in an open car with flags of Russia and the USSR and a portrait of Alexander Lebed on the windshield. As punishment, Seryogin was expected to be arrested and fined.

In 1998 Alexander founded the Museum of Forgotten Things on the Mozhaisk highway. Inside there was a vast exposition on the history of pre-revolutionary Russia, the Soviet Union and the 90s.


For many years the museum was a place of pilgrimage for connoisseurs of antiquity and history lovers and finally ceased to exist only in 2014, having ceded its hectare of valuable Moscow land to large retailers.

In 2005, Alexander Seregin became a deputy of the rural settlement of Sosenki. During his term as a deputy, he proved himself to be a fighter for justice, saving Sosenki from destruction - it was planned to lay the Staro-Kaluga extended highway through the village. Also, with his assistance, an Orthodox church was restored in Sosenki.

Since 2005 and until now, Alexander Seregin has been involved in the work on the acclaimed anonymous series of books "Project Russia", published by the Eksmo publishing house in aggregate million copies.

Alexander Seregin about Project Russia

In 2010, Alexander Seregin took up one of his hobbies - treasure hunting. He organized the Napoleon's Treasure Search Center (TsPKN), which for several years was engaged in research and practical work on the search for valuables exported by Napoleon's army from Moscow.


According to various sources, "Napoleon's treasure" - one and a half hundred carts with artifacts and jewelry looted by the French army from the Palace of Facets, the cathedrals of the Kremlin and the whole city, as well as from the richest houses in Moscow. Somewhere in the Smolensk direction, the brother of Josephine, the emperor's wife, was forced to hide the treasures. Since then, there has been no rumor or spirit about them - the treasure has not yet been found.

Currently, he calls himself the coordinator of the "Project" Russia "" and is preparing for publication the fifth volume of the series, promising that it will be on his pages that the recipe for the salvation of Russia and the whole world will appear.

Photos from open sources

The eldest son of Cuban Revolution leader Fidel Castro committed suicide, Cuban newspaper Granma reported.

"Ph.D. Fidel Angel Castro Diaz-Balart, who was under the supervision of a group of doctors for several months due to severe depression, committed suicide on 1 February", - indicates the edition. Before his death, Fidel Castro Jr. spent some time in the hospital, and then was transferred to outpatient treatment.

The son of Fidel Castro, who was affectionately called "Fidelito" on the island because of his strong resemblance to his father, passed away at the age of 68.

In recent years, Castro Jr. was a science advisor to the State Council of Cuba and vice president of the Cuban Academy of Sciences, writes TASS.

His death was announced on Cuban state television. The date and place of the funeral were not announced.

Son of commandante

Castro Jr. was born on September 1, 1949 in Havana. He was the son of Fidel Castro from a short marriage to Mirta Diaz-Balart.

Fidelito was the nephew of the current Cuban leader Raul Castro, the younger brother of Fidel Castro.

According to media reports, Castro Jr. was married twice: the first time to a Russian, the second to a Cuban woman. From his first marriage, he left two children.

His father, the leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, passed away on November 25, 2016 at the age of 90.

Honorary Professor of Moscow State University

Jr. Castro graduated from Moscow State University in 1974 with a degree in nuclear physics. In the USSR, he studied under the assumed name Jose Raul Fernandez due to the need to hide his relationship with the leader of the Cuban Revolution.

For some time, Castro Jr. worked at the Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, received his Ph.D. at the Institute of Atomic Energy named after I.V. Kurchatov, the leading atomic center in Russia.

In 2013, Castro Jr. received an honorary professor degree from Moscow State University. Earlier, in 2008, he was awarded the title of Honorary Doctor of MEPhI.

Cuban nuclear program

From 1980 to 1992, Castro Jr. headed the Cuban Atomic Energy Agency. He was actively involved in the design and implementation of the Cuban nuclear program. Under his leadership, the construction of the Juragua nuclear power plant, frozen in 1992, was carried out on the island.