John F. Kennedy and Fidel Castro

By: Pedro Corzo - 05/12/2022

Guest columnist.
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It is evident that history plays very tricks and that the bandits spend more time entangling their environment than the good ones, at least that was the result between these two political leaders who, in their youth and rapidly ascending in public life, faced each other, The Cuban dictator died the same month, 53 years later, as the president he supposedly ordered to be assassinated.

However, the lives of both, although they never met, are strongly intertwined, the two are important reference points in episodes of American history such as the Bay of Pigs, 1961, the Missile Crisis of October 1962, the armed subversion that sponsored totalitarianism. throughout the hemisphere and the mercenary presence of the Cuban army in Africa, within the framework of Soviet expansionism, of which Castro was its most prominent promoter

The American president was nine years older than the Cuban caudillo, the former was openly committed to democracy and freedom, the latter had only one goal, to acquire the greatest possible personal power and destroy a Republic that, although imperfect, was among the countries more advanced Latin Americans.

Both Castro and Kennedy were aware that the differences were impossible to overcome, so the abrupt end of one of the two was to be expected.

There are numerous reports that associate Fidel Castro with the assassination of Kennedy. The rapid subordination of the Castro regime to the Kremlin and the consequent massive aid in the political, military, economic and police aspects, caused a prompt internationalization of the Cuban process, establishing an umbilical cord that generated continuous crises, between the Castro power, the Cuban democratic opposition and the hegemonic blocs.

The support that Castro obtained from the USSR prompted a sector of the political opposition to seek international support, mainly from the United States, support that achieved its greatest materialization in the presidential period from 1961 to 1963. The then US president promoted the issuance of the 2506 Brigade supported armed infiltration groups and also Operation Mongoose, which was canceled after the Missile Crisis.

The well-known columnist and researcher Jack Anderson in conversations with the mobster Johnny Rosselli, plus the results of a secret CIA investigation, concluded that the Cuban dictator was involved in the assassination of Kennedy.

Anderson affirms that Castro"s agents assigned the "job" to Lee Harvey Oswald, assassinated less than 48 hours after the assassination by Jack Ruby, a Dallas mobster. Gang member Roselli was shot to death in 1966, three years after the President"s murder, and Ruby died of cancer in 1967 while awaiting a new trial.

Anderson cited nine people, mostly mobsters, who played a key role in the Kennedy assassination on a television show, the seventh on his list being Fidel Castro. According to Anderson, Castro discovered that Kennedy had tried to assassinate him in a joint effort between the Agency and the mob, but he reversed the macabre game in his favor, convincing the mob that the President"s death would bring them advantages.

The investigator suggests that Lyndon B. Johnson, president after Kennedy"s death, knew about the situation since he once confessed to a person about Castro"s involvement in the Dallas crime, saying "Kennedy tried to eliminate Castro, but Castro got to him first."

In September 1963, two months before the tragedy, the Cuban dictator during a speech warned the CIA that since he had tried to kill revolutionary leaders, the lives of the American leaders were in danger. Supposedly, Castro"s motivation for eliminating Kennedy was that he knew that the US president -frustrated by the failure of the "Bay of Pigs" and handcuffed by the agreements that put an end to the "Missile Crisis"- was trying to Eliminate it with the help of mafia groups.

A few days before the assassination of Dallas, at a dinner that Castro had attended at the Brazilian embassy in Havana, the Brazilian representative Vasco Leitao –a man close to the United States– had reported a curious and threatening comment from the maximum tyrant : "Those who try to kill me must be careful, because the weapons that are pointed at me today, tomorrow can be turned against them."

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