More than a year has passed when the whole world learned about the death of the revolutionary and leader of Cuba, Fidel Castro. And the other day, another sad news came, his eldest son, who was also called Fidel, died, he committed suicide.

His full name is Fidel ngel Castro Diaz-Balart and he left a written message, but the authorities do not disclose its content. He was 68 years old, he was a talented scientist who at one time found himself in Moscow. Suicide is believed to have been the cause of his psychological state, and it was very difficult.

It is known that, in recent years, he has been covered with depression. It got to the point that he even went to a psychiatric hospital under the supervision of doctors. They looked after him, but it did not help, apparently he did not cope and decided to commit suicide.

He was born on the "island of freedom" before the civil war. His mother met the future leader of Cuba when she studied at the University of Havana, she chose the specialty "philosophy", her name is Mirta Diaz-Ballart, her father at that time was at the head of the city of Banes.

The young people quickly got married, and soon a son, Fidel, appeared, affectionately named Fidelito. The marriage did not last long, Mirta did not understand Castro and soon divorced him when he fled to Cuba, she went to the USA.

When the boy came to his father, he decided not to return to the States in the United States. He went to study in the USSR, first it was Voronezh, and then Moscow State University and the specialty "nuclear physics", then he was a four-year graduate student in Dubna. The guy was very capable, and he did not study under his own name, and very few people knew about his stay in the Union.

Castro's son turned out to be a talented scientist: for two years he conducted experiments at the Institute of Atomic Energy and at the reactors of the Novovoronezh NPP. Many years later, he said that in the Soviet Union he studied under the name Jose Raul, and that he was the son of a commandant, knew a very limited circle of people in Moscow.

Diaz-Balart also made a diplomatic career. Almost until the end of the 1980s, he headed the Cuban delegation to the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance, was chairman of the Permanent Commission on the Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy of the CMEA member countries, and at the same time in 1980-1992 was the Executive Secretary of the Atomic Energy Commission of Cuba.

In addition, the scientist served as chairman of the commission of countries for the peaceful use of nuclear energy in the Non-Aligned Movement, the website writes. And in 1983-1992, Fidelito was the plenipotentiary representative of Cuba to the IAEA and the head of the Cuban delegation to the IAEA Assembly.

As for Fidelito's personal life, he was able to win the heart of the Soviet girl Olga Smirnova, who gave him three children.

The couple's eldest daughter and youngest son now live in Spain, where they are engaged in scientific activities and teaching, and the middle son also followed in the footsteps of science and teaches at the University of Computer Science in Havana.

For the last two decades of his life, Diaz-Balart was the head of the Science and Innovation Department at the Ministry of Energy and Industry of Cuba and the Science Advisor to the State Council of the country. Since 2012, he has been Deputy President of the Cuban Academy of Sciences, in addition, he served as Plenipotentiary Representative of Cuba at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, Moscow Region.

As one of Fidelito's colleagues, Jonathan Benjamin-Alvarado, said, in the past few years, the scientist was very worried that his concept on the use of renewable energy in Cuba did not find support from local officials.

MEXICO, 2 Feb - RIA Novosti. Fidel Castro's eldest son, Ph.D. Fidel Angel Castro Diaz-Balart, committed suicide in Cuba on Thursday. This was reported by the state news agency Prensa Latina, citing national television.

In recent months, doctors have been trying to help Castro overcome his deep depression. At first he was in the hospital, then he was observed on an outpatient basis.

The State Department refused to comment on the death of the son of Cuban leader Fidel Castro and called it a personal matter.

Biography facts

Fidel Angel Castro Diaz-Balart was born in 1949 in Havana.

In 1974 he graduated with honors from the Physics Department of Moscow State University. M.V. Lomonosov. He defended his Ph.D. thesis in nuclear physics at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (Dubna). He worked at the Institute of Atomic Energy. IV Kurchatov and at the Novovoronezh NPP. He actively participated in the development and implementation of the Cuban nuclear program, represented the country at the IAEA.

At the time of his death, Castro Diaz-Balart was a scientific adviser to the State Council and vice-president of the Cuban Academy of Sciences, studying the topic of innovation.

On August 13, Cuban military and political leader, the legendary Commander Fidel Castro would have turned 91, but in November 2016 he passed away. Much has been written about his revolutionary and political achievements, but the Cuban leader preferred to remain silent about his personal life.

One of the biographers of Fidel Castro told how he told him: “Write everything that concerns my political activity. I have no secrets here. And leave your personal life, my emotional attachments to me - this is my only property. "

The creation of the myth about 35 thousand mistresses of the Comandante was facilitated by an interview published in 2008 in the New York Times with one of Castro's former officials. “He slept with at least two different women a day for over 40 years in a row. On the one - at lunch, on the other - at supper, and sometimes "ordered" a woman for breakfast, "said the" close ". However, biographers of the Cuban leader do not take such statements seriously.

Nevertheless, the women adored Fidel. He possessed magnetism, charisma, he smelled of courage and fearlessness - and the opposite sex felt it.

“The hefty guards by some miracle restrained the monstrous pressure of hundreds of women who were reaching out to their idol. The scene gave the impression of mass insanity, many women were crying, some fell to the floor and squealed with delight ... ".

In fact, there are not so many reliable facts about the personal life of Fidel Castro.

Fidel Castro's first wife

It is known that he was officially married only once, and he had one legitimate child. The legal wife of the commandante was Mirta Diaz Balart, the daughter of the minister of government of Cuban President Batista. They met at the University of Havana when Fidel was in his fifth year.

“She loved dancing so much! All Cubans have an indescribable sense of rhythm, but Mirta among Cubans was perfection itself. They say that the first time he saw the charming blonde, Castro promised: "I will certainly marry her." And they made fun of him - they say, never such a beauty would marry a guy who has both left legs and no sense of humor ... ”, - wrote journalist Jack Skelly about this novel.

In 1949 they had a son, who was named after his father - Fidel Felix Castro, Fidelito (little Fidel).

However, the marriage was not meant to be long. Mirta filed for divorce when she learned that her husband, while serving a prison sentence, acquired a mistress. So, Castro's love correspondence fell into the hands of his legal wife. And if in letters she received only critical comments about the upbringing of her son, then the mistress got all the romantic ardor of Fidel. The mail allegedly confused letters for different addressees, although Nati Revuelta, the woman who caused the divorce, was sure that the substitution was deliberate.

Relatives gave Mirta an ultimatum long ago: either her relatives or her husband, since her family and Fidel found themselves on opposite sides of the revolutionary barricades. Cheating on her spouse helped the woman make a choice. Together with her son, she left for the USA. Fidel was angry, but not so much by his wife's deed as by the fact that she dared to take his heir with her. However, new love interests and the cause of the revolution did not allow him to grieve.

Fidel Castro's son, Fidel Félix Castro Díaz-Balart, studied at Moscow State University at the Physics Department under the name Jose Raul Fernandez and had an internship at the Kurchatov Soviet Institute. He was married twice: the first time to a Russian, the second to a Cuban woman.

The author of the biography of Fidel Castro, international journalist Maxim Makarychev notes that he is the son of the Cuban leader. “From 1980 to 1992, Fidelito headed the Cuban Atomic Energy Agency. The only legitimate child of Fidel Castro headed the atomic energy agency in socialist Cuba, but was then fired overnight. They say he blurted out something unnecessary about his father. Now Fidelito is a scientific advisor to several ministries, teaches at Cuban universities, translates books, travels a lot around the world. According to the Spanish newspaper El Pais, he lives with a Spanish woman in his home in Havana. He has two grown sons, about whom even less is known than about the children of the commander-in-chief. Residents of the Island of Freedom know by sight only the eldest son of Fidelito and the brothers of Fidel - the younger Raul and the elder Ramon. The full names of his other relatives, their addresses, photographs have never appeared in the Cuban press. "

So, Nati became Fidel's next woman. However, Revuelta's pregnancy did not make Fidel propose to her. When she gave birth to a girl, Castro sent a sister to his young mother to make sure of his paternity. The sister recognized family traits in the newborn, who was named Alina, and gave the child a gift from her father - platinum earrings. 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.

In 1993, Alina fled Cuba using a fake Spanish passport. She said that she never shared the total love of all mankind for her father and never fell under his charm. “This is not my banquet,” Alina Fernandez said about Castro Cuba. Soon, in her book, entitled "Castro's Daughter - Memoirs of an Exile," Alina lifted the veil over her father's private life. She writes that, in addition to Fidelito and herself, the commandant has six children. All their names begin with the letter "a" - Alex, Alexander, Alejandro, Antonio, Angelito. This is because the full name of the leader is Fidel Castro Alejandro Rus, but few people know about this.

Marita Lorenz, another woman who left a mark on the Comandante's life, was his translator and personal secretary. She dropped out of an American university and flew to Havana. The affair with Fidel ended in the fall of 1959, when Marita was five months pregnant. Their child died. It is unclear whether there was a miscarriage, or whether Lorenz was forced to have an abortion. So, Marita, suddenly felt unwell after breakfast.

All that she remembers about further events: she is being taken somewhere, she is in great pain, she wakes up in an unfamiliar hotel room in a pool of her own blood. He touches his stomach with his hand, but the child is no more. It was a miracle that Marita was saved: after a handicraft operation, she began to get blood poisoning and Lorenz had to be taken from Havana to the United States. It was there that the secret services came to her, who took advantage of the girl's difficult mental state and offered to take revenge on Fidel: to poison him. The girl answered them with consent.

Was Fidel involved in this? It is unlikely that there are many illegitimate children in his life. But the CIA agents convinced the heartbroken girl that it was his fault. “They brainwashed me a lot,” she later admitted. They stuffed me with sleeping pills, amphetamines, slipped anti-Cuban brochures. The girl broke down. In January 1960, she traveled to Miami to meet with the CIA's double agent, mobster Frank Sturgis, who handed her poison pills.

The end is well known: ampoules with deadly poison lay in an ordinary jar of cream. The head of state made his former lover wait for him in the room of the Habana Libre hotel, where Castro's residence was then. “His hand went to the holster. I thought he would shoot me, but Fidel held out the weapon to me. "Have you come to kill me?" - he asked. Then he took a drag on his cigar and closed his eyes. The girl was unable to shoot. Marita threw out the ampoules in the bidet. “Love turned out to be stronger,” she said many years later.

Having told the leader of the revolution everything she knew, she left Cuba. They did not see each other again. Sturgis was subsequently found at the bottom of the sea in an iron barrel with broken legs.

Dalia Soto del Valle is considered the second wife of Fidel Castro, albeit unofficial. It was Dahlia who gave birth to Castro's five sons: Angel, Antonio, Alejandro, Alexis and Alex. It is known that they were all educated in Havana, have personal protection and hide their origins even from close friends.

Dahlia and Fidel met in 1959 in Trinidad.

“Fidel was introduced to Dahlia, he fell in love with her and took her with him. No one has ever seen her again, ”says Lazaro Asensio, journalist and former commander of the revolutionary forces. According to ex-intelligence agent Delphin Fernandez, Dahlia lived in Fidel's closed residence for twenty years. “She always had to stay in the background. At Fidel's request, she avoided appearing in public. She had to silently endure Castro's betrayal, which, fortunately, is known only to a narrow circle of close people. "

If information about Dalia, little by little, but still managed to leak into the press, then the story of the relationship between Fidel and Maria Laborde remains the most mysterious in his biography.

The fact that the commandant has another son, Jorge Angel, became known thanks to the revelations of his former bodyguard. Juan Reinaldo Sanchez fled Cuba to the United States, where he published a book of his memoirs.

Fidel's recognized daughter Alina Fernandez, also, in her book entitled "Castro's Daughter - Memoirs of an Exile", pointed out that Castro has another child, Jorge Angel, from a woman known in Cuba as "Amparo".

In 1993, when journalist Anna Louise Bardach asked Castro how many children he had during an interview with Vanity Fair, he smiled and said, "Almost a tribe."

In total, Fidel is credited with up to 20 illegitimate children. However, all this is only part of the myth about the legendary commandant ...

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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.