{"id":397478,"date":"2018-02-02T07:31:10","date_gmt":"2018-02-02T07:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=397478"},"modified":"2018-02-02T07:31:10","modified_gmt":"2018-02-02T07:31:10","slug":"cuba-fidel-castros-son-takes-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2018\/02\/cuba-fidel-castros-son-takes-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuba: Fidel Castro’s son ‘takes own life’"},"content":{"rendered":"
The 68-year-old son of Cuba’s former leader Fidel Castro has died in Havana after taking his own life, according to Cuban state media.<\/p>\n
Fidel \u00c1ngel Castro D\u00edaz-Balart was found on Thursday morning and is said to have suffered from depression.<\/p>\n
The first-born son of the late president was nicknamed “Fidelito”, or Little Fidel, because of the family resemblance.<\/p>\n
He was a nuclear physicist, trained by the former Soviet Union.<\/p>\n
“Fidel Castro D\u00edaz-Balart, who had been treated by a group of doctors for several months due to deep depression, took his life this morning,” Cuba’s official newspaper Granma reported.<\/p>\n
State television said he had been receiving medical treatment as an outpatient in recent months, following a hospital stay.<\/p>\n
At the time of his death, he was a scientific adviser for the Cuban Council of State and he served as vice president of Cuba’s Academy of Sciences.<\/p>\n
He headed the island’s nuclear programme from 1980 to 1992, before it was suspended after the Soviet Union’s collapse.<\/p>\n