The Sandinistas' 1979 victory had been a huge triumph for Fidel Castro. A leftist regime, loyal to Cuba, was the foothold he had been looking for since the 1960s. Now he could support a growing ...

The Batista regime was extremely unpopular with the Cuban people. In 1956, Fidel Castro and Che Guevara gathered a force of guerrilla fighters and started a revolutionary war against government ...

Fidel Castro estimated that fewer than 450 would ... The rebels knew that they were gaining, but they did not realize that victory was so close at hand. On Christmas Eve a priest climbed the ...

Fidel Castro shares at least one belief with the majority of Americans: He is convinced that the assassination of President John F. Kennedy was not the work of a lone gunman, but rather the ...

The former president of Costa Rica turned last night to his personal experience and political past to give an extraordinary account of events in Cuba just after Fidel Castro acceded to power.

The Sandinistas' 1979 victory had been a huge triumph for Fidel Castro. A leftist regime, loyal to Cuba, was the foothold he had been looking for since the 1960s. Now he could support a growing ...