When Uncle Sam Desperately Wanted to Whack Fidel
The Cold War’s greatest Road Runner and Coyote shit show.
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Number of assassination attempts on Fidel Castro, according to former director of Cuban intelligence Fabián Escalante, attributed to each US president: