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"My memories of Cuba are of things in ruins," he said. "It was already in ruins pretty much. So for me to see it (before Castro's regime), what it reminds me of are pictures I would see from my ...
Me too!” they would say, and most of them would get it – BC meant “Before Castro.” Those license plates are a political statement from Beato, 64, a former child refugee from Cuba.
Although much has been written about Cuba after Castro, relatively little has been written about Cuba before Castro. The political reality of Castro’s Revolution has created a ...
This weekend, Fidel Castro will step down as president of Cuba, defying expectations that only death would part him from the role. The Times has been on the death watch, and before that, on the ...
Cuba without a Castro: ... Raul announced he would serve his second five-year term before stepping down as president in 2018, but he intends to remain head of the Communist Party.
Fidel Castro, the son of a prosperous sugar planter, first attempted to overthrow Cuba’s government in 1953. He was sent to prison along with his brother Raúl and famously declared: “History ...
Fidel Castro paraded 200, then 400, finally almost 1,000 captured rebels into Havana’s Sports Palace and subjected them to a favorite pastime of the new Cuba, the televised inquisition. To the ...
Fidel Castro wearing the uniform of the Barbudos army baseball team takes warm-up pitches before the start of the short exhibition game at night on July 24, 1959 in Havana, Cuba. Castro ...