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event will be talking about today we're gonna be talking about today. We're going to be talking about

plots to assassinate Fidel Castro. All right, so who was Fidel Castro and why do we

try to kill him? Fidel Castro was a Cuban revolutionary and the leader of Cuba from 1959 until 2008.

And the US government tried to kill him because we didn't like his opinions about macroeconomics. We're very particular about macroeconomics. We didn't like it.

And based on his Marxist-Leninist communist philosophy, he sided with Russia during the Cold War and he antagonized the Kennedy family.

Castro very clearly won that feud against Kennedy, but the American military and intelligence community continued trying to murder Castro for decades, often in cooperation with Cuban exiles who opposed the Castro regime.

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