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Fidel Castro survived at least eight assassination plots by the CIA
- tim333 10y agoYou'd think they would be a bit more effective given their reputation. Also I'm not sure assassination is the way to go.
- iampherocity 10y agoThere are a lot of institutions in America that look really good on film, but the reality doesn't match the ideal.
- draw_down 10y agoI guess we hate their freedom.
- grabcocque 10y agoI don't think assassinating the leader of a foreign power is particularly easy. I'm not sure the CIA ever managed it?
- cm2187 10y agoWell, someone succeeded with JFK...
- user5994461 10y agoI'd think that assassinating any human being is particularly easy. They are flimsy creatures. Unless Castro is living secluded in a bunker all day with only 3 servants, he'd be seeing hundreds of other humans everyday, any one of which could kill him.
- wlll 10y agoMaybe, though you might be able to say the same about the president of the US. The people surrounding the leader of any given country I'd guess would be people who have background and links, kinda like a network of trust (I'm thinking GPG here), one you have to infiltrate further away from the target? Families and relations and ties etc. Guessing most political leaders don't hire staff from temp agencies?
- wlll 10y agoThat we know of. Which may be exactly the way they want it, and that may add to the difficulty.
- fit2rule 10y agoThere is, unfortunately, a very long list: https://wikispooks.com/wiki/US/Foreign_Assassinations_since_1945 https://wikispooks.com/wiki/US/Foreign_Assassinations_since_...
- literallycancer 10y agoThat site doesn't seem very trustworthy.
- fit2rule 10y agoWhat site does these days? I mean, does: http://www.theweek.co.uk/politics/21051/cia-and-long-history-assassinations http://www.theweek.co.uk/politics/21051/cia-and-long-history... .. or: http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-cia-has-attempted-to-assassinate-50-foreign-leaders-including-chavez/5326864 http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-cia-has-attempted-to-assass... .. or: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/mar/21/usa.davidpallister https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/mar/21/usa.davidpalli... .. seem more or less trust-worthy to you? Perhaps there is a site that lists all the people America has not assassinated ..
- tmnvix 10y agoSo who was responsible for the other 600?
- tim333 10y ago>From the seventies onwards, the attempts were most often made by Cuban exiles who had been trained by the CIA shortly after Castro took power in 1959.
- privong 10y agoMods, I think the submission title should be reverted to that of the article: "Fidel Castro, Communist Former Leader of Cuba, Dies at 90". The current submission title ("Fidel Castro survived at least eight assassination plots by the CIA") is one of the bulleted points at the top of the article, but the main focus of the article is not the CIA's assassination attempts. This should probably be marked as a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13041886 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13041886
- scoot 10y agoUnfortunately due to lack of Moderator Distribution Network, the mods are all in bed. Flag it and move on.
- sankae 10y agoIt's crazy how this is brushed off as some type of quaint news. If this had been some other country targeting US leaders, people would be demanding blood.
- boards2x 10y agoFrom Iran's Mozadek to Cuba*, the world would have been freer and more democratic without USA interventionism and global terrorism. Especially considering USA media is refusing to acknowledge Castro reached out and was rejected by the administration of the time. The crimes USA has committed against freedom around the world, so to gurnetee access to oil and resources throughouh corrupt richt wing gouvernement are scary.
- albertgao 10y agoThere is a famous idiom in China, the good people won't live long while the bad people will live forever.