On the eve of Fidel Castro's 1959 revolution, Cuba was neither the paradise that would later be conjured by the nostalgic imaginations of Cuba's many exiles, nor the hellhole painted by many ...

Fidel Castro called them gusanos ("worms"), escoria ("trash"), and more recently, "the Miami Mafia." Of all the aspects of the Cuban Revolution ... those who had come before.

January 1: Revolutionary leader Fidel Castro's forces enter Havana. Before dawn ... A second bomb in several days destroys Cuba's finest department store, El Encanto. April 15: President Kennedy ...

The decision to denounce the crimes of the Castro regime against the opposition originated in the vital center of resistance that Cuban political prisons have always been (even before the Citizens ...

HAVANA -- Fidel Castro ... before top government officials in the Hall of Mirrors at the Presidential Palace. Advertisement Castro said he wanted to "carry forward the revolution in Cuba ...

Before Castro’s revolution was to take hold he had befriended a man who would help shape rebellion in Cuba, Argentine doctor, Ernesto “Che” Guevara. Castro was able to topple the right-wing ...

The Batista regime was extremely unpopular with the Cuban people. In 1956, Fidel Castro and Che Guevara gathered a force of guerrilla fighters and started a revolutionary war against government ...