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.

Well, Cuba, for a while, had to import sugar. In an interesting touch, Fidel Castro banned Christmas, from 1969 to 1998. Absolute dictators can do that. Cuba was, among other things, Fidel’s ...

Lawyer Fidel Castro’s revolt against the regime of President Fulgencio Batista is the sort of affair that appeals more to young zealots than to common sense. Holed up in eastern Cuba’s rugged ...

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 ...

He might have said that Fidel Castro's Cuba is "an authoritarian undemocratic country" and left off the "but on the other hand..." part. Instead, he set up Clinton for this little salvo ...

Cuba — The story of Fidel Castro, and his 56-year Communist rule in Cuba, is often told at macro-level, marked by headline events such as his overthrow of the Batista government in 1959 ...

After the divorce, Ms. Díaz-Balart and her son spent time in the United States before returning to Cuba. She once sent her son to Mexico to visit Castro, but he did not allow the boy to return.