Love and conflict… His first wife Fidel Castro, the Mirta Dias-Ballart, who “put up with him,” has died at the age of 95, Fidel’s grandson Antonio Castro Smirnoff announced in X.

Mirta Díaz-Balart, who lived in Spain, was the mother of Fidel Castro Díaz-Balart, known as “Fidelito”, Castro’s eldest son, who committed suicide in 2018.

The daughter of a Cuban politician in the 1940s, Mirta Díaz-Balart married Fidel Castro in 1948. The couple divorced in 1955.

The battle for the custody of their child, which Fidel Castro won, had reached great proportions. After the victory of the Cuban revolution in 1959, Myrta Díaz-Ballart he was forced into exile.

However, he was able to visit Cuba several times.

The Dias-Ballart family still maintains great influenceor among Cuban exiles based in Miami. One of Mirta Díaz-Balart’s nephews and Fidelito’s cousin is Mario Díaz-Balart, a member of the House of Representatives and a staunch anti-Castro.

Fidel Castro (1926-2016) was married once and only, to Myrta Díaz-Balart. But he had fathered at least nine children with four different women. With his last partner, Dalia Soto del Vage, he had fathered five sons.