We were discriminated against either because we were black or because we were poor. Now we are judged on merit alone.” Not enough Cubans share his enthusiasm, however, to usher in Castro’s ...
Many poor peasants were seriously malnourished ... and social justice in a well-planned economy." Many wealthy Cubans welcomed Castro's rebel triumph in January 1959. "My parents, my grandparents ...
"We have known," said Castro last year, "the bitterness of having to depend on others and how this can be turned into a weapon against us." That Cuba should pay her way in the world, as independent of ...
After Castro’s death in 2016 ... ‘If he’s as good a leader as he was a father and husband, poor Cuba.’” ...
Former Cuban leader and longtime US foe Fidel Castro turned 90 on Saturday, some 58 years after he and fellow revolutionaries seized control of the island in 1958. While the elder Castro did not ...
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 ...
On his return to the presidency on January 20, Donald Trump rescinded his predecessor Joe Biden’s short-lived removal of Cuba from the State Sponsor of ...
Poor and starving during a period ... Los Frikis were a group of punk rockers who rejected communist Cuba, loved rock music (which was banned by Fidel Castro) and the rock ‘n’ roll style.
Cuban President Fidel Castro exercised his right to vote Sunday in Havana. He announced it in a message, sent to the people of Western Cuba, affected by rains and winds. The cold, the rain and the ...