How Castro survived 638 very cunning assassination attempts (www.abc.net.au)

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Crazy just how low the CIA will sink to kill someone they don't agree with. Truly the most evil and cowardly organisation on earth.

A series of newspaper reports in the 1970s led to a government investigation of the CIA's abuses of power. President Ford banned political assassinations in 1976, but according to Escalante they continued for two more decades, including in the '90s under President Clinton.

Corruption and lies the whole way down. No wonder the US is crumbling.

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[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 39 points 3 months ago

According to some accounts, the mafia was able to slip a jar of poison pills to a cafe worker in the capital of Havana.

Some say the worker was meant to slip the poison into an ice cream cone, other say it was a milkshake. But at the crucial moment, the poison could not be dislodged from inside the freezer. It was frozen stuck.

Either way, this was the closest the CIA came to getting the marked man.

If anything could convince me there is a divine force it would be the number of times Castro avoided death through sheer luck. His existence is so statistically improbable that it can only be explained as having something watching over him.