A man I know once spent three days interviewing Fidel Castro. This was in 1964. “It was like washing your hands in Niagara” was how he describes the experience. Watching “The Fidel Castro ...

Castro, who rarely wakes before 10 a.m. or 11 a.m., is happy not to wear a suit and confessed that the main reason he has a beard is so he did not have to shave every day.

With his shaggy beard and rumpled, olive-drab fatigues, Fidel Castro presented himself to the world as a modest man of the people. At times, he claimed he made just 900 pesos ($43) a month and live… ...

The communist adversary for 10 U.S. presidents, Castro wore his trademark beard and army fatigues for nearly five decades, giving fiery speeches against what he called the evils of imperialism.

Fidel Castro had a large family, and was one of six siblings. He married twice and had nine children. He kept his trademark fatigues and beard to the end, though after handing over power he also ...

Fidel immediately summoned the head of the escort, Col. José Delgado Castro, my boss at that time: “I am warning you: Alina must not leave Cuba under any pretext or in any way. You’ve been ...

Fidel Castro, Cuban politician and ... The CIA even considered a plan to dust Castro’s shoes with thallium salts, which would make his beard fall out, undermining his image, McClatchy reported ...

Fidel Castro in November 1976. Prensa Latina / Reuters, file. ... They also tried dusting his shoes with thallium salts — which would have made Castro's iconic beard fall out.

Years before Fidel Castro, the defiant leader of revolutionary Cuba, died on November 25, his demise had been reported many times. The first was nearly 60 years ago, when the front pages of The ...

In an interesting touch, Fidel Castro banned Christmas, from 1969 to 1998. Absolute dictators can do that. Cuba was, among other things, Fidel’s personal fiefdom.

Ramon Castro has died at age 91. The older brother of Fidel, 89, and Raul Castro, 84, knew little renown, as he declined an active role in the struggle that heaved the two, and communism, to power ...

Fidel Castro: Played by James Franco, obvi. He has the scraggly beard. And, as we’ve already established, his ancestors hail from the same 4 million-square-mile continent as Castro’s.