October 15: Raúl Castro, Fidel's brother, is named Minister of Defense. October 19: Along with 14 officers, Comandante Huber Matos, an important figure in the revolution, resigns his post as ...

Fidel Castro was every word in the book ... Alberto Korda was a successful studio photographer focused on fashion when the revolution in Cuba found him. He would quickly begin work as a ...

The Castros and their compadres fought their revolution in the 1950s and triumphed ... In an interesting touch, Fidel Castro banned Christmas, from 1969 to 1998. Absolute dictators can do that.

HAVANA, November 26. /TASS/. Leader of the Cuban revolution Fidel Castro died at the age of 90, Cuba’s President Raul Castro told the state television on Saturday. "I am here to inform our ...

Mirta Díaz-Balart, a member of prominent Cuban family who was married to Fidel Castro during his rise as a guerrilla leader, ...

In 1956, Fidel Castro and Che Guevara gathered a force of guerrilla fighters and started a revolutionary war against government forces. By 1958, the revolution had spread throughout Cuba ...

Social media is spreading an unusual theory about late Cuban leader Fidel Castro ... the skills needed for revolution, the New York Times reported. Photos of Castro playing the game provide ...

The May 1 rally draws hundreds of thousands of Cubans into Havana's Revolution Square in a sea of red, white and blue national flags and portraits of Fidel Castro. But he died in November and Raul ...

"I am Fidel" Cubans are deeply divided over Castro's legacy, with many hailing the social benefits of the revolution, such as advances in education and health, while others denounce a history of ...