No, but I may as well be. Im there about 6 weeks a year........
I used to do that...you know....until the old ball and chain came around
Cuba is amazing, and if I didn't have a son to think about, I'd probably be living there now........ but......... I like my son to be able to eat. So I'll stay here for now.
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They can't invade anywhere right now they are too busy killing everyone in Iraq and Afganistan. Their hands are kind of full.
Castro has been open about a US invasion since day one which made it harder for the US to do anything plus lets not forget that until the end of USSR Cuba had support that the States would not go up against.
Ugh too much to write.....
Exactly! That was 1961 and Cuba had the backing of the USSR.
Does Cuba have the Chinese on their side?!!? That would be the other detterent.
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If the U.S. really wanted to get rid of Fidel.....they would have done so already.
Obviously they have no problem invading any other country when they don't get their way.....so why have they not done so in Cuba? Same goes for Chavez.
Uh hello....bay of pigs ring a bell?
They can't invade anywhere right now they are too busy killing everyone in Iraq and Afganistan. Their hands are kind of full.
Castro has been open about a US invasion since day one which made it harder for the US to do anything plus lets not forget that until the end of USSR Cuba had support that the States would not go up against.
Ugh too much to write.....
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If the U.S. really wanted to get rid of Fidel.....they would have done so already.
Obviously they have no problem invading any other country when they don't get their way.....so why have they not done so in Cuba? Same goes for Chavez.
I saw that special too it kind of messed up that the usa goverment at the time hired Sam giacona to do the killing, that was that war that they called Bay of pigs and when they mission failed they said they had nothing to do with it.. i'm not suprise the usa goverment will try something like that
It was certainly a marriage of convenience. After Fidel Castro led a revolution that toppled a friendly government in 1959, the CIA was desperate to eliminate him. So the agency sought out a partner equally worried about Castro -- the Mafia, which had lucrative investments in Cuban casinos.
The plot, described in detail in CIA documents released yesterday, involved six poison pills, a bungled wiretapping and CIA operatives working with two mob bosses on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list.
The CIA's efforts to assassinate Castro were documented by the Church Committee in 1975, based on the testimony of the key players, but the documents show that the agency's actions in the early 1960s still have the capacity to shock.
The CIA plan was known to only a few top officials, including then-CIA Director Allen Dulles. Robert A. Maheu, a former FBI agent, was asked by senior officials to contact Johnny Roselli, a high-ranking mobster he knew.
Maheu made the pitch on Sept. 14, 1960, at a hotel in New York City. He brought along James O'Connell, whom he identified as an employee but who was in reality chief of the CIA's operational support division. They offered to pay $150,000, but Roselli declined any pay.
Roselli later introduced Maheu at the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach to "Sam Gold" and "Joe," who had connections in Havana. Flipping through Parade magazine, Maheu later discovered to his shock that "Sam" and "Joe" were actually Momo Salvatore Giancana, the successor to Al Capone as head of the Chicago mob, and Santo Trafficante Jr., the head of the mob's Cuban operations.
Maheu told the CIA's security office, but the plan went forward, according to a summary written by the office's director, Howard J. Osborn. Giancana suggested slipping something into Castro's drink or food, and the CIA provided "six pills of high lethal content," according to the summary. But an initial assassin got cold feet, and the project was canceled before a second man could act.
The project was nearly exposed when Maheu was arrested for arranging the wiretapping of the room of comedian Dan Rowan, who Giancana suspected was having an affair with the mobster's girlfriend. When the wiretap technician was captured, he implicated Maheu, requiring the CIA to ask then-Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy to drop the prosecution.
Roselli later told columnist Jack Anderson about the plot after the CIA refused to help him fight deportation. He disappeared shortly after testifying to the Church Committee. His body was later found in a 55-gallon oil drum near the coastline of North Miami Beach.
-- Glenn Kessler
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