- Rumors floated that when Castro’s son Fidelito killed himself, he left note calling Justin Trudeau his ‘half-brother’
- Cuban government has never made this claim, and there have been no reports of a suicide note
- Canadian government denied the report this week, saying Justin was born just over 9 months after his parents wed
- His parents, then PM Pierre Trudeau and Margaret Trudeau did visit Cuba – when Justin was four
A story claiming Fidel Castro was the father of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is not true. The Canadian government denied it, Cuba has never claimed it and Trudeau’s parents didn’t Cuba until several years after Trudeau was born.
The February 1 suicide of Castro’s oldest son, Fidelito, spurred the most recent report on several sites, claiming that Fidelito left a suicide note referring to Justin Trudeau as his half-brother.
A theory that Castro was Trudeau’s father was also shared widely on social media after Castro’s death in 2016, when Trudeau caused an uproar over remarks praising the late Cuban leader.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was born four years before his parents traveled to Cuba and met Fidel Castro, seen here in 2004
The Canadian government denied the reports this week. Justin Trudeau was born on December 25, 1971, to the late Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and his wife, Margaret.
Trudeau was born a little more than nine months after the marriage of his parents and more than four years before Margaret made a much-publicized first trip to Cuba and met Fidel Castro.
Margaret was 22 when she married the 51-year-old prime minister and was the subject of intense media scrutiny.
Baby Justin seen here sticking his tongue out at Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau as his mother, Margaret, holds him
In this Jan. 1976 file photo, Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, right, waves after arriving in Havana, accompanied by Cuban leader Fidel Castro. Justin Trudeau was born in 1971
Experts say it would have been impossible for an earlier visit to Cuba to go unnoticed.
Cuban media have been unusually open about the death of Castro’s oldest son, Fidelito, describing it as a suicide after a long depression.
Neither state media nor independent reporters covering the death have reported the existence of a suicide note.
Fidel Castro Diaz Balart, seen in 2005, committed suicide ‘after a long depression’ on February 1. His death triggered new rumors about Trudeau