Fidel Castro and Exploding Cigars

A variety of schemes to assassinate Fidel Castro have been concocted over the years, including exploding cigars, a toxic dose of LSD, a milkshake laced with cyanide and contaminating his wet-suit with tuberculosis.


Perhaps the most ludicrous plan was the idea of putting chemicals on his shoes to make his beard fall out. Castro himself has said that if survival of an assassination attempt were an Olympic event he would certainly have won the gold medal.


The suggestion that Castro's Cuba poses any sort of threat to the United States (or anywhere else, for that matter) is absurd but for the last 43 years the US has maintained a painful trade embargo on Cuba.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Last Updated: Monday December 10 2007