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Fidel Castro Part 5: The Bay of Pigs

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Fidel Castro's UN Address and CIA Conspiracies

This chapter examines Fidel Castro's impactful visit to New York in 1960, where he passionately criticizes capitalism during his United Nations speech. It also reveals the CIA's covert attempts to remove him from power, intertwined with a personal story featuring one of Castro's lovers, highlighting the complex interplay of personal and political dynamics of the time.

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