the CIA attempted to assassinate fidel castro 638 times. he lived until 90, dying from natural causes in 2016. by the time president john f. kennedy was shot dead by a gunman in dallas in 1963, the kennedy administration had tried to kill castro 42 times. 20 days before becoming a victim of murder himself, JFK had sanctioned and was aware of the CIA backed coup that resulted in the assassination of south vietnamese president ngô dình diệm. this as we know, unfolded a chain of events leading directly into deeper U.S involvement in the vietnam war.
a series of newspaper reports in the 1970s led to a government investigation of the CIA's abuses of power. president ford banned political assassinations in 1976, but they continued for two more decades, including in the '90s under president clinton.
in 1999, bill clinton visited athens and apologised for the U.S involvement in aiding generals who went on to rule greece under a military dictatorship for 7 years between 1967-1974.
the CIA were particularly fond of latin america during their world tour. in the slightly less than a hundred years from 1898 to 1994, the U.S. government has intervened successfully to change governments in latin america a total of at least 41 times. that amounts to once every 28 months for an entire century. the 41 cases do not include incidents in which the united states sought to depose a latin american government, but failed in the attempt. (revista, harvard review of latin america)
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