Questions tagged [fidel-castro]
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Did Fidel Castro ever make this prediction?
The Bimini Times just put out this pretty interesting and prophetic Castro quote,
The US will come to talk to us when they have a black president and the world has a Latin American Pope. - Fidel Castro 1973
I've also seen it on twitter,
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Did Fidel Castro ever say "I will not die until America is destroyed"
A massively popular tweet (50k retweets) by Ryan Holmquist quotes Fidel Castro
It reads,
Castro: I will not die until America is destroyed
Trump: I'm gonna be the president
Castro: well then
There are quite a few other tweets along the same…
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Did CIA plot to overthrow Fidel Castro by staging the Second Coming, making him lose his beard or getting him high on radio?
This article (along with this article and many others) mentions some plots by CIA to overthrow the Cuban leader Fidel Castro:
Staging the Second Coming so that religious people would abandon their anti-clerical leader
Poison him with tallium salts…
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Did Fidel Castro put gay people into concentration camps?
This r/The_Donald reddit thread features an image macro that reads:
You know what really grinds my gears?
Liberals saying that Trump will put gays into concentration camps and eliminate free speech while praising Fidel Castro... who actually…
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