Her father, Joseé Manuel Fajardo, had been a Cuban soldier and bodyguard of the wife of President Fulgencio Batista — who Castro helped overthrow in 1959. “Although the death of a human being ...

The Associated Press has learned that military officials are reviewing plans that would cut the number of U.S. troops deployed to the Guantanamo Bay naval base in Cuba to handle detained ... There are ...

Spain responded to the Cuban insurgency by sending 100,000 soldiers to Cuba in 1895. After the United States government was drawn into the conflict in 1898, the end of Spanish rule became a reality.

Crowed bantam Generalissimo Batista: “This strike is a disgrace to the civilization of Cuba.” He sent out his soldiers to scour Havana, sent Army planes swooping over the roof tops.

The treatment of minors in Cuban detention centers is discussed below, at General Prison Conditions: Juvenile Justice. 22 Article 38(2) establishes the minimum age for child soldiers as fifteen.

While he was supposed to be mounting guard on the roof of the President’s Palace one night last week, a Cuban soldier sauntered over to the ventilating pipe above President Gerardo Machado y ...