HAVANA (AP) — After his band of bearded rebels won power in 1959, Fidel Castro embarked on a victory tour delivering speeches to cheering crowds stretching from the eastern Cuban city of Santiago to ...
While dissidents label Castro a dictator who jailed or forced detractors into exile, for "Fidelistas" he could do no wrong. Instead of leaving messages in books of condolence, Cubans were invited to ...
HAVANA (Reuters) - Cubans will begin massing on Havana's Revolution Square from Monday for a week-long commemoration of Fidel Castro, the communist guerrilla leader who led a revolution in 1959 and ...
Mirta Díaz-Balart, a member of prominent Cuban family who was married to Fidel Castro during his rise as a guerrilla leader, and who later was forced to leave their son behind when she fled after ...
Cuban exiles re-create Castro’s communist revolution at Miami museum Miami's Cuban museum welcomes Americans from all walks of life to experience the terrors of 'revolutionary justice' A firing squad ...
Long live the revolution!" The homage was complemented with music, dance and a series of declarations, punctuated by chants of "Viva Fidel (Long Live Fidel), Viva la revolucion, Viva Cuba libre!".
A big celebration was scaled back after three hurricanes in 2008 caused $10B in damage. Cuba’s President Raul Castro, right, and Gen. Juan Almeida, one of the original commanders of the Cuban ...
Let us make Cuba the example. Let us make the Andes the Sierra Maestra of the Americas. —Fidel Castro REVOLUTION is fast becoming Cuba’s principal export. Perhaps not since the early days of the ...
BAYAMO, Cuba -- Fidel Castro led tens of thousands of Communist Party faithful Wednesday in a celebration of the nearly suicidal barracks assault that launched the Cuban Revolution 53 years ago.