Castro stepped down as Cuba's president 10 years ago after suffering a severe gastrointestinal illness, and before his 90th birthday in August he told supporters he was going to die soon.
He led a coup in 1959 to overthrow the regime of the US- backed former Cuban president Fulgencio Batista, and remained hostile to Washington throughout his life.
These included an attempt to smuggle a jar of cold cream containing pills into his room, the exploding cigar, a fungal- infected scuba-diving suit and a mafia-style shooting.
Some of these plots were depicted in a documentary entitled 638 Ways To Kill Castro.
He once said in regard to the myriad failed attempts on his life: “If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win a gold medal.”
He is also known for leaving his bears and consider it an important thing to his country.
He said:I’m not thinking of cutting my beard,
because I’m accustomed to my beard
and my beard means many things to my
country. When we fulfil our promise of
good government I will cut my beard.
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