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Fidel dies peacefully at home with his family
Cuban revolutionary hero saw off 10 US presidents and 670 attempts to kill him

CUBAN revolutionary leader Fidel Castro died peacefully in bed surrounded by family members on Friday night, having thwarted the efforts of 10 US presidents to overthrow him.

El Comandante, as Cubans knew him, survived at least 670 fanciful assassination plots dreamed up by the CIA or the mafia bosses to whom it offered the contracts on his life.

“If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal,” he once commented.

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