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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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
Castro grew enmity from Cuba's powerful American neighbor just 90 miles to the north. -Castro wanted to be a member of the Soviet club. And so, to do that, he had to declare himself to be a ...
In March 1966, Rolando Cubela stood before a Havana military tribunal accused of leading a plot to kill his former comrade, Fidel Castro. During the two-day proceedings, Mr. Cubela never denied he ...
The official part of Fidel Castro's marathon visit to Moscow was over, and his beaming host had a few words of farewell before sending the honored guest off to southern Russia to loll in the ...