Fidel Castro, Man of 634 Lives
The Cuban leader was never supposed to make it to the age of 90.
Someone had to do it. In the wake of the death of Fidel Castro, The Guardian went with the following headline for its article about the many failed CIA assassination plots against the Cuban leader.
The “634” in our headline, per Guardian contributor Duncan Campbell, is the total amount of attempts Castro’s security forces calculated had been made over the years against their boss. And that’s likely not including other subterfuges like the one referenced in a fun Montreal Gazette piece about the time Castro visited Montreal in 1959 to participate in a Junior Chamber of Commerce toy drive on Cuba’s behalf:
At 11 p.m.,
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