In 1953, a young Fidel Castro was tried for his armed attack on the Moncada military barracks in Santiago de Cuba during the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista. The attack was a dismal failure, though ...

“Today, we offer our condolences to Fidel Castro’s family and our thoughts and prayers are with the Cuban people. “In the days ahead, they will recall the past and also look to the future. “As they do ...

Fidel Castro, the Cuban revolutionary leader who built a communist state on the doorstep of the United States and for five decades defied U.S. efforts to topple him, has died, Cuban television said.

Denunciations and accolades greeted the abrupt removal this month of a controversial monument in the Mexican capital commemorating the two revolutionaries, Fidel Castro and Ernesto “Che” Guevara. The ...

Recent reports on Fidel Castro's health say the Cuban leader is doing well and may soon return to his position as president. Commentator William Jelani Cobb says, in all the talk over Castro's latest ...