According to state television, Fidel Castro Diaz-Balart, the eldest son of former Cuban president Fidel Castro, killed himself yesterday.
"The nuclear physicist suffered from a severe depression for some time and, after being admitted to hospital for the traumas following the disease, was assisted by a team of doctors".
The only child born from the first marriage of the father of the Cuban revolution with Mirtha Diaz-Balart, daughter of a Cuban politician of the years' 40, for his great resemblance to his father was known as "Fidelito".
After the divorce occurred in the 1955, the battle for the custody of the son, won by Fidel, gave birth to a real saga. The woman had to exile after the revolution of the 1959 revolution: her family is still one of the pillars of the anti-Castro exiles based in Miami, Florida.
Born the 1 SEPTEMBER 1949, Fidelito was sent by his father to the then Soviet Union to study nuclear physics, where he held important positions from 1983 to 1992 before being appointed vice president of the Cuban Academy of Sciences, a role he held until at his death.