Cuba denounces `virtual' Castro plot in new game
By PAUL HAVEN
Associated Press
HAVANA -- Cuba harshly criticized a new video game in which U.S. special
operations soldiers try to kill a young Fidel Castro, saying Wednesday
that the violent role-playing glorifies assassination and will turn
American children into sociopaths.
The island's state-run media also took a dig at the CIA's real-life
efforts to do in the island's revolutionary leader, who has survived
dozens, perhaps hundreds of attempts on his life.
``What the United States couldn't accomplish in more than 50 years, they
are now trying to do virtually,'' said an article posted on Cubadebate,
a state-run news website.
The brouhaha surrounds one of the most highly anticipated shoot-em-up
video games of the year, ``Call of Duty: Black Ops,'' which went on sale
in the United States on Tuesday. The game, from California-based
Activision Blizzard Inc., takes players on secret missions to American
Cold War enemies such as the Soviet Union, Cuba, Vietnam and Laos.
The Cuban operation is one of the first challenges players face in the
ultra-realistic game. The mission takes place with John F. Kennedy in
the White House in the months leading up to the 1961 Bay of Pigs
invasion and the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, which brought the world to
the brink of nuclear Armageddon.
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