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tim333
You'd think they would be a bit more effective given their reputation. Also I'm not sure assassination is the way to go.
iampherocity
There are a lot of institutions in America that look really good on film, but the reality doesn't match the ideal.
grabcocque
I don't think assassinating the leader of a foreign power is particularly easy. I'm not sure the CIA ever managed it?
cm2187
Well, someone succeeded with JFK...
ekianjo
a domestic enemY is easier to get rid of than a foreign one.
rat87
Lone nut-cases are hard to predict, therefore hard to stop.
user5994461
I'd think that assassinating any human being is particularly easy. They are flimsy creatures.

Unless Castro is living secluded in a bunker all day with only 3 servants, he'd be seeing hundreds of other humans everyday, any one of which could kill him.

wlll
Maybe, though you might be able to say the same about the president of the US. The people surrounding the leader of any given country I'd guess would be people who have background and links, kinda like a network of trust (I'm thinking GPG here), one you have to infiltrate further away from the target? Families and relations and ties etc. Guessing most political leaders don't hire staff from temp agencies?
wlll
That we know of. Which may be exactly the way they want it, and that may add to the difficulty.
fit2rule
There is, unfortunately, a very long list:

https://wikispooks.com/wiki/US/Foreign_Assassinations_since_...

tmnvix
So who was responsible for the other 600?
tim333
>From the seventies onwards, the attempts were most often made by Cuban exiles who had been trained by the CIA shortly after Castro took power in 1959.
privong
Mods, I think the submission title should be reverted to that of the article: "Fidel Castro, Communist Former Leader of Cuba, Dies at 90". The current submission title ("Fidel Castro survived at least eight assassination plots by the CIA") is one of the bulleted points at the top of the article, but the main focus of the article is not the CIA's assassination attempts.

This should probably be marked as a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13041886

scoot
Unfortunately due to lack of Moderator Distribution Network, the mods are all in bed.

Flag it and move on.

sankae
It's crazy how this is brushed off as some type of quaint news.

If this had been some other country targeting US leaders, people would be demanding blood.

Kenji
Meanwhile the US goes nuts over alleged Russian influence over the election. Imagine someone tried to assassinate the POTUS, they'd turn this planet into a fireball.
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ekianjo
erm Castro was not democratically elected in the first place.
secstate
No, but neither was Batista.
ekianjo
so why would people fight or revolt if anyone tries to assassinate someone with poor legitimacy in the first place ?
3131s
Hasn't stopped the CIA from trying before!
[dead] boards2x
From Iran's Mozadek to Cuba*, the world would have been freer and more democratic without USA interventionism and global terrorism. Especially considering USA media is refusing to acknowledge Castro reached out and was rejected by the administration of the time. The crimes USA has committed against freedom around the world, so to gurnetee access to oil and resources throughouh corrupt richt wing gouvernement are scary.
albertgao
There is a famous idiom in China, the good people won't live long while the bad people will live forever.