Fidel Castro survived at least eight assassination plots by the CIA(bloomberg.com)
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Fidel Castro survived at least eight assassination plots by the CIA
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-26/fidel-castro-who-turned-cuba-into-communist-outpost-dies-at-90?cmpid=socialflow-twitter-business&utm_content=business&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social
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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.
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.
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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.
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_...
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 ..
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 ..
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.
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.
This should probably be marked as a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13041886