Castro Diaz-Balart, also known as “Fidelito” because of how much he looked like his father, had initially been hospitalized for depression and then continued treatment as an outpatient. “Castro Diaz-Balart, who had been attended by a group of doctors for several months due to a state of profound depression, committed suicide this morning,” Cubadebate website said. Through his mother, he was the cousin of some of Castro’s most bitter enemies in the Cuban American exile community, US Representative Mario Diaz-Balart and former US congressman Lincoln Diaz-Balart. Previously, from 1980 to 1992, he was head of Cuba’s national nuclear programme, and spearheaded the development of a nuclear plant on the Caribbean’s largest island until his father fired him. His death came just over a year after that of his father on Nov 26, 2016, aged 90.

Source: bd News24 February 02, 2018 03:00 UTC