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Castro died on Friday at the age of 90 having survived a staggering 638 attempts by the CIA and its allies to assassinate or undermine him Get daily headlines and breaking news alerts for FREE by ...

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro says he has survived an assassination attempt after explosive-laden drones were detonated near him as he gave a speech in Caracas. Although drone bombs are unusual, ...

One famous incident involved the controversial communist handing a gun to his mistress who had planned to kill him but she couldn’t pull the trigger CUBA’s revolutionary leader Fidel Castro is said to ...

The Cohiba cigar was first rolled in Cuba in 1966. The creation of the tobacco blend that would become known as Cohiba is attributed to two different men. Popular myth has it that Fidel Castro learned ...

From an exploding cigar to an attack on his luxuriant beard, plots to bring down Fidel Castro were nothing if not imaginative. The Cuban leader died aged 90 last Friday having survived 638 attempts by ...