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…said Whitney Houston to Kevin Costner, but It might also apply to Cuba’s now retired dictator Fidel Castro.

CNN has just published an article on the assassination attempts undertaken by the CIA to knock Castro out. Nobody told them that by giving a small nuisance too much credit, you actually help his cause. Just notice how Hugo Chavez tries to do a similar thing by constantly telling his people that America might invade any second. Those damn Imperialists…

The assassination attempts initially were hair-loss attempts. By poisoning the air in a radio station with a drug that had similar effects like LSD it was contemplated to discredit Cuba’s leader in case he should brabble nonsense in an interview, I suppose. Later a poisoned cigar was to make his beard fall out.

Apparently the mob didn’t like Castro so much either, so they offered to take the man out with poisoned pills during the time of the invasion in the Bay of Pigs. After this was called off, a Cuban mobster that somehow makes me think of Al Pacino in “Scarface” was given guns and more posioned pills to try again, but he apparently just disappeared.

Another discrete but possibly incredibly lethal way to kill a dictator is to give him a diving-suit with fungus on the inside that would make him get a skin disease. Cuba’s enemies are patient. They also tried to give him a beautiful exploding seashell and possibly poison him with a pen-slash-syringe that contained poison.

I don’t know, but according to some movies I’ve seen: Couldn’t they just send someone to shoot him? I’d say they tried too much, and yet at the same time didn’t try hard enough.

The CNN article can be found here.