Raúl Castro said Friday he is resigning as head of Cuba’s Communist Party, ending an era of formal leadership that began with his brother Fidel and the country’s 1959 revolution. The 89-year-old ...

MIAMI — Have you ever wondered what it would really feel like to face the terrors of a communist revolution — guerrillas seizing your property, facing Marxist “revolutionary justice” trial in a public ...

On April 19, 1959, Fidel Castro appeared on “Meet the Press” for his first visit to the United States since the Cuban revolution, nearly three months earlier. When asked if he was a Communist, he said ...

HAVANA -- Fidel Castro, 32-year-old leader of Cuba's revolution, was sworn in as prime minister last night and conceded he faced "the toughest test of my life." The man who toppled the regime of ...

Cuba, which in 1959 was violently changed from an oppressive thug-ocracy into, well, another thug-ocracy, only with longer speeches and more efficient firing-squads, is currently suffering from a ...

Fidel Castro Díaz-Balart and his son Fidel Antonio Castro Smirnov attend memorial services for the late Fidel Castro in 2016. El Nuevo Herald archive Fidel Castro’s eldest son has joined a long list ...

In the very first edition of the Forverts newspaper, published during Passover 1897, Cuba made headlines. “Bravo Kubaners,” read our story in support of an independent Cuba, freed of Spanish rule. A ...

Several Cuban leaders used the title 'president’ during the first years of the revolution, though the first three served for short times. As prime minister, Fidel Castro was the real power in ...

HAVANA - OCTOBER, 1959. Fidel Castro, fresh from his revolution in Cuba, greets the Minneapolis Millers, who, along with the Havana Sugar Kings fled bad weather in Minnesota to play the Little World ...