This video explores the covert efforts by the CIA to remove Fidel Castro from power during the Cold War. From failed invasion ...

The overthrow of Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela is one for the history books in Florida. In November, the Florida Board of Education adopted standards for teaching middle and high school students about ...

Por qué Cuba? By Florencia Lagos Neumann, Master in Contemporary History and International Relations. The United States, the ...

Today is Thursday, Feb. 19, the 50th day of 2026. There are 315 days left in the year. Today in history: In 1942, during ...

But later in life, she reinvented herself as an artist and photographer. In 1974, she secured an exclusive photo shoot and interview with Cuban leader Fidel Castro, during which he gave her his watch ...

February 19 holds historical significance. It marks the birth of Copernicus and Shivaji Maharaj. The date saw the Donner Party rescue and Edison's phonograph patent. Kansas banned alcohol. US interned ...

On Feb. 19, 1942, during World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which paved the way for ...

After the Bay of Pigs humiliation, the CIA launched Operation Mongoose to remove Fidel Castro at any cost. What followed were some of the most bizarre assassination plots in history, including ...

There are 318 days left in the year. Today in history: On Feb. 16, 1959, Fidel Castro was sworn in as premier of Cuba, six weeks after dictator Fulgencio Batista was overthrown and fled the country ...

Even though Cuba poses no threat to the U.S., the Trump administration continues its criminal policies of sanctions and other restrictions in an attempt to ...

The Trump administration, which has tightened the U.S. chokehold on Cuba by cutting off foreign oil, is betting that this is ...

A new book offers a fresh timely look at Leon Trotsky, perpetrator and victim of Soviet communism. Stephen Kotkin, a Stalin biographer, founded the Hoover History Lab at the Hoover Institution at ...