CUBA. 1964. CHE GUEVARA.cElliott Erwitt
“What would your State Department say if they knew you had been kept incommunicado in the Sierra Maestra with for three days?” Fidel Castro asked Lee Lockwood, an American photojournalist, during a rare, smoke-filled seven-day interview in 1965.
Such as the Fidel Castro Assassination Attempts!! A German beauty named Marita Lorenz, many historians believe, had one of the earliest and best chances to assassinate Fidel Castro in 1959, the very year his Cuban Revolution overthrew the U.S./Mafia-backed Batista dictatorship on the nearby and always coveted Caribbean nation. A lot of beautiful women in 1959, including raging rumors about Hollywood lovelies such as Ava Gardner, both caught Fidel's enticing rebel eyes, but the only one that history confirms was the only one that spent a night alone with Fidel in a Havana hotel room with the plans and means to assassinate him was Marita Lorenz!! Many books and newspaper articles have told the world that no person in history has ever come close to surviving as many assassination attempts as Fidel Castro did, with the most accepted number being 634 although one credible and famous documentary put the number as 638. Those figures are sort of astounding considering that the CIA and the Mafia reportedly were behind most of the attempts. The Marita-Fidel saga was perhaps best documented by the New York Post on September 2nd, 2017. That was when Marita, then in her 70s, explained that her episode in that hotel room with Fidel was true. As you can see above, Marita at the time she spoke to the New York Post was promoting her famed tell-all book as well as an upcoming Hollywood movie in which A-List actress Jennifer Lawrence was playing Marita. At this late stage of her life, Marita wanted history to know what happened in that Hotel Room in Havana when she was alone with Fidel!!! Of course, some very powerful and well-heeled assassination experts thought, for sure, it would be the night that Fidel would be assassinated. In her tell-all revelations the fascinating Marita Lorenz said that notable CIA operative Frank Sturges recruited her to assassinate Fidel Castro, as both U.S. & Cuban historians had already stated. True History registers the truly unique and fascinating relations between Cuba and the United States that began in 1492, the year Columbus discovered both of the neighboring land areas. And that History continues into August-September of 2023 with Fidel Castro still the centerpiece. For sure, for all those turbulent years and fascinating times one man, Fidel Castro, has dominated the History of U.S.-Cuba Relations. While History clearly registers the 600+ assassination attempts that Fidel Castro survived, History also confirms that Fidel Castro died at age 90 in 2016 as he slept peacefully and unapologetically in his own bed in Havana. The History of Fidel Castro confirms that the assassins failed to kill him although they tried over 600 times. And since 2016 the ultra-powerful forces trying to destroy Fidel Castro's legacy have also failed. But the most amazing and most significant aspect of Fidel Castro's life is this: As August turns into September of 2023, "Fidel" is still the leader of Cuba and still the primary reason that his revolution still rules the otherwise very vulnerable island-nation. 1952-1959 and 1959-2023!! *&***********************&*
1959: The year Fidel Castro completely charmed America
Before he was the repressive dictator scorned by the American public, he was just another tourist.
Dickey Chapelle was already a famed war correspondent when she got an assignment to cover the charismatic leader of a revolution.
Fidel Castro was a Cuban revolutionary and politician who was Prime Minister of Cuba from 1959-1976 and President from 1976 to 2008. Castro followed the doctrine of Carl Marx and served as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba from 1961-2011. Castro turned Cuba into a one-party socialist…
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