Fidel Castro

"Viva la Revolución!!!"

- Fidel Castro

Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz was the Cuban dictator from 1959 untill 2008 and is an antagonist in the campaign of Call of Duty: Black Ops, but a protagonist in "Five", a zombie map.

He is voiced by Gustavo Rex and Marion Correa.

Campaign
In the mission Operation 40, Mason, Woods and Bowman's mission is to assassinate Fidel Castro. Mason successfully kills who the team believes to be Castro, but it is later revealed in the same mission by Castro himself that Mason killed a double. The real Castro captures Mason, and turns him over to Dragovich.

Zombies
He is also available as a playable character in the Zombie map Five, where he was discussing the Cuban Missile Crisis with John F. Kennedy, Robert McNamara, and Richard Nixon when the zombies attacked. In many parts of "Five" cigars just like Castro's are seen.

Trivia
thumb|300px|right|Fidel Castro at the end of "Operation 40"
 * Fidel Castro is one of the highest ranking characters seen in the Call of Duty series.
 * The role of the currently retired former President of Cuba as a antagonist in the Call of Duty series has sparked international controversy. Cuba has accused the US of "trying to do virtually what it has failed to do for 50 years".
 * It is shown that Castro thinks highly about Robert McNamara since he says he reminds him of his comrade Che Guevara, Castro's best friend who fought with him in the Cuban Revolution.
 * Of all the four playable characters in "Five" he is the last one still alive in real life. Kennedy died in 1963, Nixon in 1994 and McNamara in 2009.
 * Treyarch originally planned for a portion of Castro's beard to be visible in First-Person View while playing the Zombie map, "Five", But was later scrapped.