Havana, Cuba — The story of Fidel Castro, and his 56-year Communist rule ... but today it is extremely poor and decayed. Like a denser, Caribbean version of Detroit, the better-off central ...
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 ...
Cuban authorities arrested the primary suspect in the murder of 75-year-old Esperanza Cabrera Melvin, a beloved Cuban teacher ...
The year 1961 was supposed to be "The Year of Education" in Fidel Castro's Cuba. Last week the slogan was enlarged. It is now also "The Year of the Firing Squad." ...
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 ...
After Castro’s death in 2016 ... ‘If he’s as good a leader as he was a father and husband, poor Cuba.’” ...
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On his return to the presidency on January 20, Donald Trump rescinded his predecessor Joe Biden’s short-lived removal of Cuba from the State Sponsor of ...