Fidel Castro

"Viva la Revolución!!!"

- Fidel Castro

Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz was the Cuban dictator from 1959 until 2008 and is an antagonist in the campaign of Call of Duty: Black Ops, but a protagonist in the Zombies map "Five". In Zombies, his player indicator color is green.

He is voiced by Gustavo Rex and Marion Correa.

Campaign
Castro appears in the mission Operation 40, where Mason, Woods, and Bowman 's mission is to assassinate Fidel Castro. Mason successfully kills a double who they believed to be Castro, but it is later revealed in the same mission by Castro himself that Mason killed a double. When trying to escape they are faced by a blockade and Mason is forced to jump off to help the rest of the Op 40 escape, the real Castro then captures Mason, and turns him over to Dragovich as a "gift" at the Rusalka.

Zombies
He is also available as a playable character in the Zombies 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

 * 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 an 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 alongside him in the Cuban Revolution.
 * Castro hates Kennedy.
 * Of all the four playable characters in "Five" he is the last one still alive in real life. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, Nixon died in 1994, and McNamara died in 2009.
 * Treyarch originally planned for a portion of Castro's beard to be visible in first-person view, but this idea was later scrapped.
 * Castro can be heard in one of the telephones in Ascension.
 * After you kill Castro's double, his crosshairs remain red.

Video
thumb|300px|left|Fidel Castro at the end of "Operation 40"