Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! The Cuban Revolution began in July 1953 when Fidel Castro and his followers led a revolt against President Fulgencio Batista. Batista as a leader ...

Fidel Castro called them gusanos ("worms"), escoria ("trash"), and more recently, "the Miami Mafia." Of all the aspects of the Cuban Revolution, none has had a greater impact on America than ...

Fidel Castro sends police to the delegation's ... Only the U.S. and Israel favor keeping the embargo. The Cuban Revolution turns 40. January 5: President Bill Clinton refuses to establish a ...

In 1956, Fidel Castro and Che Guevara gathered a force of guerrilla fighters and started a revolutionary war against government forces. By 1958, the revolution had spread throughout Cuba ...

The Castros and their compadres fought their revolution in the 1950s and triumphed ... though not in Cuba. Fidel Castro was the most popular dictator in the free and democratic world.

HAVANA, November 26. /TASS/. Leader of the Cuban revolution Fidel Castro died at the age of 90, Cuba’s President Raul Castro told the state television on Saturday. "I am here to inform our ...

Fidel Castro takes a group of journalists around Cuba, touring the places and meeting the people changed by the revolution. Among the scenes are reminders of the recent attempt to topple him.

Fidel Castro was every word in the book ... Alberto Korda was a successful studio photographer focused on fashion when the revolution in Cuba found him. He would quickly begin work as a ...

Mirta Díaz-Balart, a member of prominent Cuban family who was married to Fidel Castro during his rise as a guerrilla leader, ...

Fidel Castro, Cuba's former president and leader of the Communist revolution, died aged 90. Here we take a look back at some of the key dates. The son of a wealthy landowner, Fidel Castro turned ...

Still, the revolution thrilled millions in Cuba ... that need to be fought for without ever giving up.” — Fidel Castro led Cuba for five decades and was the world’s third longest-serving ...