The legendary Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro, who celebrated his 85th anniversary, was included in the Guinness Book of Records for having survived the most number of assassination attempts, involving poison pills, toxic cigar, chemically tainted diving suit and others.
Meticulous researchers have found that there were 638 assassination attempts in Castro's life. Nearly all of them were the handiwork of the CIA dissatisfied with the appearance of a socialist country right next to the United States, or Cuban exiles who could not forgive Fidel weaning property. American gangsters were upset with him because after winning the 1959 revolution in Cuba he closed the famous casinos and brothels, where gangsters loved to fly over the weekend, Cuban media report.