The newspaper made the comment on an article on Venezuela’s recent denunciations, with evidence presented by Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello of the CIA’s involvement in the organization of terrorist plots within the South American nation to, other objectives, assassinate President Nicolas Maduro.

While noting that the US State Department has denied such accusations, the publication showed examples of three former world leaders, including Fidel Castro, on how such actions are part of the US intelligence community’s operations.

It emphasized that the assassination plots against the former Cuban president, who died of natural causes in 2016, were the CIA’s best-known and best-documented target, and pointed out that no option was too far-fetched for the agency to achieve its goal.

Between 1960 and 2000, Fidel Castro was the target of at least 638 assassination attempts under nine US presidents, the newspaper stated.

The Indian Express explained that “the last known CIA attempt on (Fidel) Castro’s life was in 2000 during his visit to Panama, where his personal security team foiled a plot to place 90 kilograms of explosives under the podium where the Cuban leader was to deliver a speech to young students at the Central American nation’s university.

The source also stated how the CIA declared former Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi an enemy because he supported Palestine and his efforts to establish a political system in Libya as an alternative to Western capitalism.

Finally, the Indian newspaper referred to former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, who went from being a reliable ally, to an enemy for the United States, and who suffered several assassination attempts, organized by the CIA and the Israeli Mossad.

He was captured after the US invasion of Iraq in 2003 and assassinated, in what was mainly an effort led by the US Central Intelligence Agency, the source said.

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