November 25, 2016General sourceWell documented

Castro Outlives Them All

On the timeline · around November 25, 2016 ·

What happened

Fidel Castro died of natural causes on November 25, 2016, at the age of 90. He had ruled Cuba for nearly half a century and outlasted ten US presidents — dying, in the end, not by any plot but of old age.

Why it matters

That the target of so many assassination schemes died peacefully at 90 is the saga's final irony — and the reason the plots are remembered as much for their failure as their audacity.

Sources

CNN. Fidel Castro, Cuban revolutionary leader, dies at 90 (2016) · General source

Part of a timelineThe Plots to Kill Castro32 events · Exploding cigars, Mafia hitmen, a poisoned milkshake, a booby-trapped seashell, a lethal pen handed over the day JFK died — and decades of exile plots after. The CIA's documented campaign to assassinate Fidel Castro, and the man who outlived it all.View all →