Cuba just endured a nationwide blackout of the electric grid, lasting for days — the third such disaster in six months. The ...

The Left has a long history of lionizing the most despicable and hateful figures of history in the furtherance of its cause.

Re “Cubans wondering what comes next” (Page 1A, Nov. 27): Much will be said about Fidel Castro, that he was a tyrant, a murderer, a dictator, as the article states. But what is always missing ...

Although Castro's assault failed, it earned him recognition as a leader of the opposition against Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. On March 10, 1952, Cubans had awakened to the news that ...

Having lived under both the Fulgencio Batista and Castro family dictatorships in my native Cuba, I have learned lessons that fortunately Americans do not experience while living in a democracy.

Running the show from behind the scenes were the same U.S. mobsters who bossed gambling for Batista. Castro was moved to action by the slump in the tourist trade and the angry demands of 2,000 ...

Batista became Cuba's strongman behind a succession ... That individual turned out to be a daring young lawyer named Fidel Castro. Even Castro -- a dynamic national figure following his failed ...

Castro Centre also has lots of clips of Fidel’s visits to many countries. The ones I found most interesting were those to ...

It had been about three months since the revolution toppled U.S.-backed President Fulgencio Batista, and Castro’s anti-American speeches and alliances with the island’s leftists were less than ...

In an essay published Tuesday on the state-run website, www.cubadebate.cu, Castro said the book will be called "The Strategic Victory." "I didn't know whether to call it 'Batista's Last Offensive ...

SEE ALSO: Fidel Castro felt basketball was perfect training for guerrilla warfare Fighting the dictator Fulgencio Batista, Castro and his soldiers swept into Havana on Jan. 8, 1959. Although his ...

His father served in the Cuban congress, as did a grandfather and an uncle, and held an appointment under President Fulgencio Batista before Fidel Castro toppled the U.S.-backed government in the ...