November 2000General source · 2 sourcesWell documented
The 2000 Panama Summit Plot
On the timeline · around November 2000 ·
What happened
In November 2000, as Castro attended a summit in Panama, Posada and three accomplices were caught with a large cache of explosives in a plot linked to a University of Panama auditorium where he was to address students. Castro publicly exposed the scheme; the men were convicted, then controversially pardoned in 2004.
Why it matters
The Panama plot, four decades after the first poison cigars, showed that the campaign to kill Castro outlived the Cold War itself.