I never personally met Fidel Castro Ruz, one of the iconic figures of the 20th Century. I only saw him once in the streets of Havana while he drove and the crowds cheered. On November 25 ...

Francisco Diaz, my father, was not one of them. He worked as a police captain at the University of Havana and had several ...

Fidel Castro tried and failed to block it in Cuba. Soviet dictators Joseph Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev and Leonid Brezhnev hated the message of freedom it consistently delivered in over 40 languages ...

Cuba has a long, turbulent relationship with the dollar. After the nationalist revolution that brought Fidel Castro to power in 1959, the dollar was strictly banned. Being in possession of a ...

a role that took him to conflict zones and brought him into contact with world leaders like Cuba's Fidel Castro. A former archbishop of New York, he was made archbishop in the US capital in 2000 ...

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 ...

Department of Defense documents from 1963 covered the Cold War of the early 1960s and the U.S. involvement in Latin America, trying to thwart Cuban leader Fidel Castro's support of communist ...

Scott, who made one court appearance dressed like Fidel Castro, claimed he found the book while on holiday in Cuba but was convicted of handling stolen goods. He received an eight-year jail ...

It would seem a daunting challenge to craft a feel-good musical set in Cuba in 1956, the year that Fidel Castro returned with his comrades to begin their insurgency in earnest, and 1996, as the ...

The project was canceled in 1992 by then-president Fidel Castro after the fall of the USSR, a Cuban ally, which had largely financed the project and provided physicists and engineers. Eliecer ...