In 1995, Fidel began to quit smoking for the second time. At first, he only quit smoking in public, and continued to smoke after returning home. He also kept smoking from his mouth when chatting and laughing with foreign guests. However, in a photo of him holding a cigar during a meeting,

Photos of international friends were published in newspapers, which had a negative impact on his image: he had already announced to quit smoking, but he failed to keep his promise to the people. This forced Fidel to make a painful decision to quit smoking completely. It took a long time after that.

Here, the Cubans didn’t quite believe this: With such a long smoking history, how easy is it to stop smoking if you say you don’t want to smoke? Even the reporters who were good at it refused to let him go. Fidel had to swear to God that when he was alone, he “couldn’t even take one puff of cigarettes”.

I don’t smoke.” He defended: “If I want to continue smoking, I must find an accomplice who can buy cigarettes for me; besides, I have to hide the ashes and butts so that no one will notice; and more importantly,

I don’t want people to feel that I am deceiving the Cuban people.” When visiting a large tobacco company in Spain, the person in charge of the company asked Fidel to taste the cigars exported by the company. Although this is an excellent opportunity to deepen economic and trade relations between the two countries.

, however, in order not to break trust with the people, he politely declined.

Fidel once personally revealed that in the first five years of quitting smoking, he even dreamed that he was smoking cigars. To this day, he still talks about cigars: "A good cigar should not be too big, and it should not be too big."

They are small and burn evenly. Even if you light it from the corner, the flame will automatically make up for your mistakes. Inferior cigars are different. They are filled with smoke, like a steam locomotive, and the smell is even more suffocating." When the reporter found out, he held it in his hand.

After smoking a Coiva, Fidel was very frustrated. He said this was his favorite cigar brand in the past 23 years.

Today, "Coiva" is the most famous brand in the cigar market, and Fidel is indispensable for its emergence. For a long time, Cuba's anti-smoking campaign has also targeted cigars. Although medical research has confirmed that cigars are harmful to human health.

The damage is much less than that of cigarettes. Once at a cigar festival held in the capital Havana, someone mentioned this to Fidel. He replied humorously: "I think so too. People usually smoke cigars after meals.

Smell the aroma and appreciate the beauty of life. However, you can't have two sets of rules for cigarette smokers and cigar smokers, right?" Fidel went through a long and painful process of quitting smoking.

Now that I am in my old age, although the doctor asked me not to smoke, I still couldn't hold back when I saw Li Cong today and wanted to show off to him. Cigars are the most important trade item in Cuba and must be carefully considered. Fifty

The amount of 100 million US dollars is not a small amount. For the current Cuban government, they really need this thing, but as a leader, there are too many things to consider.

"Mr. Fidel, this is a plan for our group. We know that Cuba's tourism industry has been developing rapidly in recent years, so we also want to invest. We are ready to expand the group's business in Cuba. We hope

We can open three to five five-star hotels, ten hotpot restaurants and a large entertainment center in Cuba. I wonder what Mr. Fidel means?" He also said it in a vague way. If someone else said that, Fidel would probably

I won't believe it. After all, these things are not a small investment, but for the energy group, these investments are simply a small investment. They will definitely say it and do it, but

These are still some plans. When they will be implemented will probably depend on when he agrees to the cigar plan. He must admit that the energy group's plan is very tempting, and he is a little tempted.

"Mr. Li, I am very grateful for your contribution to Cuba. I can't reply to you yet. I also need to hold a meeting to discuss it. But please rest assured, Mr. Li, I will definitely consider your plan carefully. Both of us will

We are good friends, but I heard that some countries that are friends of your energy group have received some retired weapons from your energy group this year. We

Being at the forefront of anti-Americanism, I wonder if the energy group can also provide us with some military assistance. I am not afraid of Mr. Li’s laughter. Our Cuban military’s fighting will is definitely the strongest in the world, but our weapons

It's really too bad." Fidel said depressedly. After all, it is not that easy to talk about one's shortcomings with others.

"Mr. Fidel, don't worry, our group has been prepared for these things for a long time. Cuba is completely different from those countries. Cuba is a bridgehead in our group's entire strategic plan, so we will not give you some decommissioned weapons."

Yes, we will give one-time assistance to the Cuban Navy, five of the latest missile speedboats, ten large patrol boats, and for the air force, we will give away twenty armed helicopters, all of which have been upgraded. They are absolutely the best in the entire Central American region.

The most advanced, these weapons will be shipped to Cuba in the near future, and we will also provide your army with army weapons of the same standard as ours, and the first batch of 5,000 sets will also be shipped together." I heard Li Cong say.

After receiving the amount of military aid, Fidel was a little disappointed. In fact, these brand-new missile boats are still small warships after all. He has always said that Cuba is a military power, but a large warship from such a military power is unexpectedly...

No, this seems a bit unjustifiable, so he needs to adapt it. Now the only one who can change this may be the Energy Group.

"Of course, the top management of our group knows that Mr. Fidel often has to deal with troubles caused by some people from the CIA, so we have also prepared a lot of weapons for Mr. Fidel's guards, which Mr. Fidel will use." Li Congxiao

He then said that these things were added temporarily by himself, and he did not want this old man to be killed by the Americans just like that. The main reason why Cuba is anti-American is because of the old man in front of him.

The person who has suffered the most assassinations in the world. According to statistics from the Cuban security department, he has been planned to be assassinated 634 times, ranking first among leaders of all countries. Fidel said humorously:

It's entirely the fault of the CIA that I'm alive today.

According to information, the CIA was still carrying out assassination activities against him until 2030. The methods were various, including cigar bombs, diving suits infected with fungi, mafia assassinations, etc. An old lover was also used to assassinate him. The woman took the pills

Hidden in the cream bottle, but when she made up her mind to take action, she found that the pills had melted in the cream, and finally she chose to confess to Fidel. Fidel said:

If there was an event in the Olympics about avoiding assassination, then it would be me.

It is actually no secret that the United States is bent on killing Fidel. But with so many assassinations, who did it? How?

It was not until 2007 that the CIA declassified a 705-page file that the truth of the matter came to light. According to the declassified files and statistics from the Cuban security department, Fidel has been assassinated 634 times so far, and none of them have been assassinated.

Success. The first assassination that Lao Ka suffered was done by a good friend.

This "one of our own" is Fidel's college classmate, Enrique Ovalez.

Fidel and Ovalez were once very good friends. Both entered the University of Havana in 1965. Both participated in student movements that opposed dictatorship and pursued democracy. So, how could they turn against each other? This requires

Let’s start from the day of the victory of the Cuban revolution. On January 8, 1979, Fidel led the revolutionary team and marched into the capital, Havana, and the Batista military dictatorship was overthrown. The new government soon began to fulfill its promise.

Committed to seeking equality and equalizing wealth and poverty, he confiscated the property of big landowners and big capitalists, and launched a vigorous land reform movement. This will naturally offend the interests of many people, and Ovalez is one of them.

Ovalez was born a landlord, and the land reform transformed him from a young man to an ordinary farmer overnight. Although he had followed Fidel in talking about "freedom, equality and democracy" before, when the revolution really came to him,

At that moment, Ovalez became murderous!

Soon, Ovalez waited for the opportunity. Lao Ka was a restless person. During the period just after the revolution had won, he often went out alone.

"Go among the masses." One day in 1979, Ovalez got the news that Fidel would go to an outdoor restaurant on the outskirts of Havana to eat. He immediately picked up a rifle and went up to the rooftop of the building opposite. The sniper position was just right.

, the angle was also very suitable. But at the moment when he was about to pull the trigger, Ovalez collapsed.

Ovalez was destined to be a giant in language and a dwarf in action. It was the same when talking about revolution, and it was the same when he took a gun to kill. He just sat slumped on the rooftop, watching Fidel finish his meal.

He left peacefully. He himself went into exile in the United States and later died of cancer.

Fidel was very satisfied with Li Cong's suggestion. He also hoped to strengthen the strength of the Guard. Over the years, he had not died at the hands of the CIA. There was one person who definitely took the greatest credit. The person who stared at the CIA was

Fabian Escalan was born in 1960. He began to follow Fidel in his wars at the age of 14. After the victory of the revolution in 1979, Fabian took on the internal security work of the new regime and was directly responsible for it.

The security of Cuba's top leaders has been ensured from the grassroots level all the way up to the Director of the National Security Bureau of Cuba, the retired former Deputy Minister of the Interior of Cuba, in charge of the General Intelligence Service and the General Counterintelligence Directorate of Cuba. Someone once described the strength of Cuba's security agencies like this: You can go anywhere in Havana

When you eat at a restaurant, Fabian already knows what you ordered before the food is served. With such a patron saint, what else does Fidel have to worry about? Hundreds of assassination attempts have been foiled by Cuba's security agencies.

, dissolved into nothingness. Under the dragnet laid by Fabian, outsiders could not even think of getting close to Lao Ka.

Fabian is very good at some cigar bombs and remote-controlled bombs. Everyone knows that Lao Ka loves to smoke cigars. The CIA really wants to add some spices to Lao Ka's cigars to make him smoke.

"Bang!" turned into ashes and went away. However, just like those boots, Fidel's personal belongings were all specially provided. Lao Ka would not touch foreign cigarettes at all. Hand grenades, carry**

Remote-controlled aircraft. This can be regarded as a category, all attacks are launched from a long distance. Fidel is an excellent speaker, and he can speak outdoors for hours at a time. Think about it, if he talks, the peripheral

If a grenade or such a "remotely controlled missile" were suddenly thrown in, the consequences would be quite serious. However, the few unlucky locals in Cuba identified by the CIA had not yet reached the designated ambush point.

Under such circumstances, he was captured by the guards led by Fabian.

Of course, these things are not the most interesting. The most interesting thing is the American honey trap. Li has heard this story from several people since arriving in Cuba. Fidel once had a German lover named Marita Loren.

The girl was beautiful and was very popular with Lao Ca. But in 1981, the girl suddenly left without saying goodbye and returned to Cuba more than six months later. What happened? This mystery remained unknown until the 1990s.

It was just revealed: Marita Lorenz published a book called "Fidel and Me". In this book, the old lady revealed that she was kidnapped by the CIA and forced to undergo brainwashing for half a year.

Later, he was sent back to Cuba to carry out the "big plan" to assassinate Fidel.

But the CIA had exhausted all its agencies and forgot one thing: never play the trick of a female killer with Fidel, because Lao Ka himself is a "female killer". Sure enough, in the book, Marita describes that mind-blowing night

.The first time the two met again, Fidel could tell that something was wrong with her. He took out a pistol and handed it to Marita and said: Are you here to kill me? Here, shoot. Marita's tears burst into her eyes, and she threw the gun away.

He went to one side and cried and said: Oh, Fidel, I can't. The bearded man opposite smiled honestly: Haha, no one can. What Cubans like to say is that when a beauty trap meets a beauty killer, it is of no use at all.

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Of course, the assassination of Fidel was not a good thing. In many cases, the CIA only provided money and weapons, and the people who did it were those from the underworld at the time. Fidel also offended many people back then. Before the United States

After decades of operation in this "own backyard", an industry worth 850 million US dollars was completely wiped out. Now the U.S. government has become ruthless, and since then, we have seen a series of plots planned by the CIA.

Assassination methods. However, the U.S. government does not dare to label itself as a blatant assassination of foreign leaders. The actual situation is that the CIA is only responsible for paying people. Someone does the real "dirty work" for them. Who does it?

What? The underworld.

Before the victory of the revolution, Cuba was full of casinos and prostitutes. Those who controlled these industries were the American mafia. They made a lot of money in Cuba and then shared it with the dictator Batista. After Fidel came to power,

, the first thing to be eradicated were these social evils. As a result, how could the Mafia give up? They dreamed of erasing Fidel from their sight, but at this moment, the US government came to the door. In 1960,

Alan Dulles, then the director of the CIA, secretly met with Sam Giancana and Santo Traficante, the two major mafia bosses in Florida.

Robert Mahu, an FBI agent who once worked as an undercover agent in the underworld, received an order from the CIA and began to have frequent contact with the mafia. His contact person was the leader of the Miami gang: John Rosselli.

Lee said: The assassination operation depends on Cuba's insiders.

The insider Rosselli was talking about was a senior Cuban official named Juan Horta Cordoba, director of Prime Minister Fidel’s office. According to Rosselli, Juan Horta had a lot of experience in the underworld.

Received benefits. Fidel closed down the casino, and the kickbacks the official received were gone. Therefore, this person was needed to assassinate Fidel. The CIA was of course overjoyed that such a big spy could appear next to Fidel.

Not only did they pay for their hard work, they also gave Rosselli six poison capsules. According to the CIA's wishful thinking, the gang members gave the poison to Juan Horta, who then injected it into Fidel's body.

In the drink, the hands and feet were clean, and the US government could not be traced. However, they forgot one thing: can Lao Ka trust people who are in cahoots with the underworld? A few days later, they received news: Juan Horta has been raped by Lao Ka

Ka was dismissed on the spot.

The CIA lost its temper, but the mafia was not in a hurry: It's okay, the government officials can't point it out, we still have a backup plan. This time we are looking for Fidel's personal doctor, and he promises to complete the task, as long as he pays another 10,000

More dollars will do it. The CIA is in trouble! Go ahead, you have to throw money into this hole again, and there probably won't be any sound; don't do it, the plan has reached this stage, the poison has been given to others, and it is not appropriate to give up halfway.

.At this moment, an order from the Office of the President of the United States arrived: Immediately stop all plans to assassinate foreign leaders. The Bay of Pigs was defeated, don’t you think it was embarrassing enough? At this time, Fidel’s life can be considered somewhat stable.

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"I am very grateful to your group for everything. I will convene a supreme meeting today, and I believe I will give you an answer soon." The meeting between Li Cong and Fidel ended just like that. It is impossible for Cuba not to accept it now.

Regarding these, the reason why Li Cong used some soft methods was because he respected him more. If it were anyone else, Li Cong would never be so easy to talk to. He just asked the warships in the military port to fire. Are you afraid of not agreeing?

Looking at the backgrounds of Li Cong and Wang Zhong, Fidel felt very uncomfortable. He knew very well that if he agreed to that condition, it would be just the beginning. Although they seemed to be very equal on the surface,

But what about the future? In the future, maybe the whole of Cuba will become someone else's. This is a world where the jungle is strong and the strong eats the strong. This small country of ours will not have much independence.
Chapter completed!