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A Moscow-trained nuclear scientist, "Fidelito had been appointed Chairman of the Nuclear Energy Commission in 1984, and for a few years it seemed that he was being groomed for an important role; but in 1992 he was abruptly dismissed, and disappeared from view. When a journalist asked Fidel about Fidelito's resignation, Fidel replied with brutal directness. 'There was no resignation. He was fired for incompetence. What's the problem? We don't have a monarchy here.'" https://books.google.com/books?id=esRje8Jo3LMC&pg=PA315 "But in 2000, Raul Castro brokered a reconciliation between his prideful brother, Mirta [Fidelito's mother] and Fidelito, who assumed another position as a senior researcher and professor at the Cuban Academy of Sciences." Still, any chance for a powerful political position for Fidelito had long since vanished. The question/challenge is whether such a chance ever existed.

(If it be objected that Raul was bound to be Fidel's successor, try to make Fidelito next in line after Raul, who after all is 85...)
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