In 1979, Cuba's Fidel Castro was asked if he was wearing a bulletproof vest under his shirt during his trip to New York. This was his response. For context, the CIA had tried to kill him for more than 600 times. Castro managed to survive all assassination attempts and die of old age at 90 years old

Netflix has a Documentary called “Cuba and the Cameraman” and it focuses on the guy in the clip interviewing ppl in Cuba including Castro. Apparently he was the only American cameraman that Castro liked and would give him exclusive interviews to him. This was one of the scenes in the Documentary

This documentary was great. I love how the cameraman was homies with Castro. Such an odd pairing.

This was SUCH a good film. The three brothers’ story was so touching.

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One of my favorite documentaries — it’s inspired me to some day visit Cuba

He was surprisingly less hairy than his beard implies lol

The women liked it that way.

Reminds of christinith's husband in the other guys. "I know what you're thinking, I'm hairy all over because of the beard. But I'm completely shaved"

He spent all of his HP (hair points) on his beard

Trudeau went back in time and knew shaved chests were a thing.

https://youtu.be/QZGIlxk96gI

Trudeau has more hair than this guy, I mean his dad

He had smooth balls too

There were a good few assassination attempts on Castro and some of them ended up downright hilarious. The CIA hired a female spy, Marita Lorenz, to try to kill him. When she confronted him alone, he handed her his pistol and told her to go for it. They had sex instead.

The full story is way more interesting.

Now that's a CHAD

I always wonder how many times this story will be pasted into the comments under anything about Castro.

And it's not like the guy was heavily guarded.

Bro I can’t wait for this to be in the movie!!!

Was just about to write this 🤣 Castro was pimping

This guy fucks..

and then everyone clapped

The guy who filmed this (John Alpert) made a really interesting documentary about Cuba in general. It's called "Cuba and the cameraman". Starting from the revolution he goes to Cuba every few years and meets the same an new people. You can see how their lives first drastically get better, but after the fall of the Soviet Union get much much worse.

Is it fair to conclude then, that the Soviet union was helping prop up Cuba economically?

Isn’t it wild how efforts for communism always start off great until it gets extinguished through force by fucking capitalists? Fuck capitalism.

To be fair, the methods they tried to employ got so ridiculous I don't think they hire a gunman to shoot him in NYC lol

Exactly. Castro knew that the US would be stupid to assassinate him on their soil. Better off trying on his soil, that way some plausible deniability can be had, plus that’d put lots of concern on other world leaders minds if the US offed a world leader on US soil like that.

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If Trump got shanked in London I'd finally have hope for the brits.

Ahhhh... smoking on a plane... simpler times.

It's easy to forget that not long ago restaurants used to ask you if you want to sit in the smoking or non smoking section in the US.

You can still smoke on private planes all you want.

Man they really just couldn't figure out how to kill that dude, they have a whole ass wikipedia page on all the shit they tried. Crazy the CIA could kill JFK but not Castro!

Easier to kill a person under your own protection than somebody else’s real protection.

Why the kill JFK

Killing him was easy.

Can reddit go one day without a highly-upvoted conspiracy theory? No? Wonderful.

The Cia originally was simply trying to discredit and embarrass him. They eventually moved towards assassination attempts, but I don't know how many of those involved shooting him. Probably not many given the fact that they were trying shit like explosive cigars. The CIA could have easily killed every person on that plane if they wanted to, but back then they cared a little bit more about covering up their actions.

He has a son named Justin that's running a country in the ground

Pardon my ignorance but I really don't know much about Castro, was he a bad guy? Or was it all because of the USSR and cold war b.s. that he became a target?

Absolutely do not use reddit comments as a way to learn things. I beg of you.

good is a point of view anakin

Ehhhh

Anyone that opposes the US capitalist regime is a bad guy (to the US).

In history, there is no such thing as good or bad guys. They're all just players of the game.

It's because of cold war but he isn't a "good guy" by any means.

The answer is "it's complicated"

The real answer is that people aren't all one thing. He did things that made others' lives better, he did things that made others' lives much worse. He felt like the good things were worth the bad. Other people disagree.

He was not much better or worse than most leaders in the 20th century, as long as you ignore the murder of those who were opposed to him or who he suspected were challenging his control/authority or otherwise got in his way, made his eggs wrong, etc...

He put gays in concentration camps and killed just about anyone who spoke against him. Take that for what you will

Castro overthrew the U.S. backed government and sided with soviets to put missiles on the island of Cuba

Castro is considered a hero and a revolutionary across the world with the exception of USA, some parts of Europe and some parts of central/South America. Mostly due to anticommunist propaganda and Western capitalist hegemony.

CIA is just an hitman organisation for the rich

Paid by the poor

I urge everyone here to read of on the horrible shit the US/CIA has done to Latin American countries. I honestly can’t have a positive view on them after the coup on democratically elected leaders in Guatemala/Chile/Argentina/Brazil/etc. and replaced them with horrible military dictators which killed tens of thousands. Not to mention the funding of fascist death squads during Operation Condor, which killed and tortured innocents suspected of being leftist sympathizing. It’s just disgusting.

And they are apparently shit at it.

Say what you will about Castro, but I'll be damned if that isn't ballsy as hell to go to a country that's tried to kill you without a bulletproof vest

The guy stood for something and defended his country against the strongest world power, surviving multiple assassination attempts in the process. He’s a boss in my book

And it worked! He survived somehow

Justin Trudeau, shave off that bread immediately...

Oh I’m sure if any political leader wanted to smoke on a plane they could. Just wouldn’t be filmed.

They wouldn’t kill him on American soil, because it will just look extremely horrible to the rest of the world

Isn't that the Trudeau's behind him? Hmmmm?

Trudeaus

His son Justin Trudeau looks so much like him in this video.

Fidel Castro is the definition of plot armor. 600 assassination attempts, and not one was successful...

Damn, Trudeau's Dad was a wild man for doing that.

600 times ? That's quite a round number. Source ?

the CIA made ~638 plans to kill him, many (not all) were carried out but were unsuccessful

Google it. Many sources, depending on the incident. It is amazing.

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Fora Bolsonaro

For comparison, the CIA attempted to assassinate Kennedy only once.

What a fucking chad

Are there any good modern books on Castro that cut through some of the bullshit that likely exists about him due to our (the USA) hate on for the guy? I’d love to read something that tries to be as honest as possible about him, both good and bad.

I'd recommend the podcast Blowback, it is basically an audiobook starting from the colonial time under Spanish rule of Cuba, and ending in 2021 (that was when it was released). All the sources for the podcast are in the official website. If you want to go even deeper you can check those.

Trudeau papa

Blackface Trudeau

Don't get your history lessons from reddit. If you are "learning new things" in this thread... you you actually are not.

Man j have such conflicting emotions about that guy. My family comes from Cuba and left because the Castro government was taking over. Much of what I know about him is from family bad-blood and pop culture.

It's wild.

Was he a bad guy?

600 times seems a bit over the top.

Yeah, it even says "more than 600 times" and that by the US/CIA alone. That is like every 18 days in the span over 30 years or every weekend over the span of 11 years. What is the source for that?

His son Justin looks just like him.

Have a tough time believing the CIA missed 600 times.

The CIA worked with him as well. They've always been a terrorist organization.

Idk, if I was trying to assassinate someone and failed 3 times I'd just give up.

The reporter was definitely a fuzz

He also fathered the prime minister of Canada

Ugh

Trudeau’s Poppa

I wonder how many times Justin Castro has seen this video.

Justin Trudeau Sr. ...

Revolutions...replace shot with shit.

Justins dad!

Dam shame they missed so many times.

Don’t get fooled. Most of the attempts were orchestrated. Ain’t nobody that lucky.

As long as you got your moral vest on tight you can murder all the gays you want!

How does someone escape from the CIA 600 times??!!!

Whatta Chad.

“A moral vest”.. powerful

More that 600 times? Get real.

It’s actually true believe it or not.

People who think the CIA run the world secretly should remember how many fuckin times they tried to kill this goofball

That mfer had plot armor

Rest in piss

Was Castro actually bad in some way or is that just good ole US of A education system propaganda?

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The US has used embargoes, and it’s own political clout to insist that other countries embargoed Cuba since the early 60’s in order to force Cuba to capitulate. The US has kept Cubans poor. Despite this, everyone in Cuba has a home, free healthcare, and a job.

A simple google search will show you he killed and tortured gays and anyone who spoke out against him

So this is what Trudeau will look like in 10-15 years....

Yeah so this is propaganda and not true. 600 attempts is total nonsense. It is embarrassing to see people fall for 60 year old propaganda still.

Man, Justin Trudeau looks just like his father....

The CIA did not try to kill him 600 times. This is propaganda created by Castro to further his mythology

Some of this comment section is stupid af. Dude was not a good person🤣.

600 attempts? 50 were CIA, 550 were his people trying to get rid of him, or people he was trying to get rid of.

All 638 were by the cia

Murdering piece of garbage.

Justin's dad looks happy

Trudeaus dad

“I have a moral vest”……died a multi millionaire while his people starved.

I'm so sick of people spouting that 600 times bullshit.

As a Cuban, my blood boils every time I see this piece of shit pop up on Reddit. Fuck Fidel Castro.

If by moral vest you mean the killing of thousands of people, then yeah moral AF. Commies are real pieces of shit.

I have no doubt the CIA tried to kill him numerous times, but this claim is wildly exaggerated to a comical degree. 600 assassination attempts would be once per month for 50 years, just to put that claim into context.

I don't think the number is as exaggerated as you think. There is a documented attempt in the year 2000. By that point Cuba was 100% not a threat to the US and the Cold War was over. If they were still trying at the time, how many times do you think they tried during the Cold War?

And he is now burning in hell sat at the devil's lap, just like he deserves 👍

He was horrific dictator. That being said, I think its deeply disturbing the US tried to kill him so many times. He deserved it, no doubt, but there's something about a very powerful nation doing everything possible to control a smaller nation that just rubs me the wrong way.

He was also a Communist piece of shit.

Ask the majority of Cuban Americans that lived under his rule what kind of man he was…

600 times.... Umm, sure.

Over 600 times? What kind of incompetent people were doing that? We could assassinate Castro pretty easily. Why would it take over 600 failed attempts to realize that you AND the rest of the team suck ass at your job???

600x is bullshit and probably from the Castro propaganda machine.

What’s hilarious is all the people here calling Castro a horrible tyrant because he held power through force. He didn’t have a whole lot of options to do otherwise because the US repeatedly demonstrated it would make the decision for the Cuban people if they had any degree of democracy.

The absolute blindness for most here to not mention Batista's US backed military dictatorship that essentially sold one of the most economically strong Latin American countries to American Elites and Mafia which resulted in the revolution is just insane.

"There's no suck thing as the American imperialism".

Shut your mouth, dictator apologist.

A fully qualified Doctor in Cuba earns £72.00 a month. All dissent is still crushed to this very day. He was no hero.

And yet Cuba has much lower infant mortality and longer life expectency that usa.

I know this guy gets glamorized in the USA but this motherfucker stole many lives and separated many families solely because of his ego. Fuck him.

It always saddened me to see people like Castro, who had the potential to do extreme good, committing such evil acts. The things he could have done with his power if he had a better moral compass

It's not like the asshole this asshole replaced was any better. And Castro broke it off with the Mafia.

What evil acts did he commit?

634 times. According to his security chief

Ya, anyone taking this 600 figure as definite truth just has a hate boner for our government in general. I mean that's not to say the CIA has never tried to assassinate him, who knows. But I doubt they'd attempt over a handful of times, let alone fail a handful of times.

The “undesirables” he put in concentration camps might quibble with “moral vest.”

Justin Trudeau’s dad was a mass murderer but at least he was a gregarious one.

Of course nobody had tried to kill him 600 times what a load of bullocks. If the CIA wanted they would have.

What a chad

Why does he look so much like Justin Trudeau? 🤔

Isn’t that Trudeau’s father?

Too bad, he was a monster

Don’t forget this guy this guy was a piece of shit lying murderer of a whole culture and nation.

These idiots done forgot the evil shit he has done

I find it very hard to believe that the CIA goes 0-600 when trying to assassinate someone

lol, this is lame propaganda, and the journalist fell into his trap.

600 seems like a number pulled out of Castro’s ass.

One of history’s greatest Chads.

If you admire this guy, fuck you. He completely ruined Cuba and did other horrible stuff, and his infernal politics have leaked to Venezuela, also ruining that country. If you haven’t lived in any of these countries, no matter how much you think you know about communism and socialism: YOU-DON’T-KNOW-SHIT.

!Viva Fidel¡

Of all dead dictators Reddit seems to be very obsessed with this comepinga, incidentally Reddit knows jackshit about Cuba and it’s at the very least very missinformed about our history, country and the reality those trapped in the island go by every day.

CIA 600 Failures? what losers!!

600 assassination attempts? Come on.

Umm, someone line up Pedro pascal for that role immediately

Trudeau’s father

Hey it’s Trudeau’s ol man!

He was a Terrible person but I have to say that that’s badass

It always annoys me that the " fact" that the CIA tried to kill him 600 times is always repeated when the original source for it, Fabian Escalante, was the head of the state security department. Aka, the guy whose job it was to prevent Castro getting assassinated.

Looks exactly like Justin Trudeau

Seems to me that the 600X is propaganda.

This says more about the US than it does Castro.

The US was fine with Cuba when the mob with their casinos were running the place.

It was actually 6789 times.

He was a fucking dictator and killer millions of inocente people. Fuck Fidel Castro 🐀💨

LMFAO 😂😂 If the CIA tried to kill him SIX times he'd be dead.....6 times over. Let alone 600..... Who believes this trash?? 🙄

The worst dictator in latin America, sad that he died bleeding through his behind. Instead of hanging him in the Plaza de la Revolucion in front of everyone

Looks like Justin Trudeau

Protected by Satan.

piece of shit but also a chad

Why are we glorifying the guy that instituted a murderous regime that suppresses all human rights and systematically impoverishes the Cuban people?

Moral vest? So killing people who doubt or disagree with you is moral? I’m glad this fucker is dead.

Only the good die young, what a monster.

Thats because the story the CIA was trying to kill him was for the masses. If they wanted him dead,it would be done.

I feel like if they wanted him dead that bad they would probably just napalm his house at night

“I have a moral vest, which is strong.” What a statement.

There's no evidence that the CIA tried to kill Castro 10x, let alone

How do you fail an assassination 600 times. It’s like the CIA is Wiley Coyote

They have literally tried explosive cigarettes.

Fidel- 600 CIA- 0

What a scumbag.

I find Castro very charismatic. I remember when Ted Koppel interviewed him on Nightline for an entire program. Or maybe it was a whole-week series on Cuba, that part I don't remember. But even speaking through a translator, Castro's personality came through and was arresting. And I find him so in this clip.

Amazing, despite being a murderous left wing bastard.

He seems like a good bloke

Educate yourself then my friend lol, dude put gays in concentration camps