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 ...

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 ...

Explore key historical events from Sunday, Feb. 16, to Saturday, Feb.22, including King Tut's tomb unsealing, Fidel Castro's ...

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 ...

The mainstream press has been soft on Fidel since he first grabbed ... “Power does not interest me,” Castro told Matthews. “After victory I want to go back to my village and just be a ...

Fidel Castro was every word in the book. The longtime Cuban leader was a revolutionary to many, a dictator to many others. A reader and a thinker as well, Castro, who died on Nov. 25 at 90 ...

The new young President John F. Kennedy faced off with the Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro and the seasoned communist Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev. The outcome was uncertain. Written and ...

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 ...