You can’t make this stuff up. And if you believe the suicide ruse, you’re barmy. More than likely, he had a lead deficiency, as they say in my neck of the woods.
Buying wholesale into the Cuban state media claim that Fidel Castro’s eldest son committed suicide based on clinical depression, The Guardian put up suicide hotlines in its news write-up. They knew how much its readers identify with the Castros, and considered this a death in the family. The British lefty paper actually posted this notice at the bottom of its story about the demise of 68-year-old Fidelito Castro:
