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Fidel Castro survived at least eight assassination plots by the CIA

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Mods, 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

Unfortunately due to lack of Moderator Distribution Network, the mods are all in bed.

Flag it and move on.

It'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.

Meanwhile the US goes nuts over alleged Russian influence over the election. Imagine someone tried to assassinate the POTUS, they'd turn this planet into a fireball.

erm Castro was not democratically elected in the first place.

Hasn't stopped the CIA from trying before!

No, but neither was Batista.

so why would people fight or revolt if anyone tries to assassinate someone with poor legitimacy in the first place ?

You'd think they would be a bit more effective given their reputation. Also I'm not sure assassination is the way to go.

There are a lot of institutions in America that look really good on film, but the reality doesn't match the ideal.

So who was responsible for the other 600?

>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.

I guess we hate their freedom.

I don't think assassinating the leader of a foreign power is particularly easy. I'm not sure the CIA ever managed it?

There is, unfortunately, a very long list:

https://wikispooks.com/wiki/US/Foreign_Assassinations_since_...

That site doesn't seem very trustworthy.

What site does these days?

I mean, does:

http://www.theweek.co.uk/politics/21051/cia-and-long-history...

.. or:

http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-cia-has-attempted-to-assass...

.. or:

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 ..

Well, someone succeeded with JFK...

Lone nut-cases are hard to predict, therefore hard to stop.

a domestic enemY is easier to get rid of than a foreign one.

I'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.

Maybe, 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?

That we know of. Which may be exactly the way they want it, and that may add to the difficulty.

There is a famous idiom in China, the good people won't live long while the bad people will live forever.

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