Sure, Fidel Castro kept the Roman Catholic Church in Cuba buried under his cigar ash for decades, shutting down its schools, exiling priests and declaring the Communist island an atheist state until ...

HAVANA — Cuba’s first new president in nearly half a century, Raul Castro, crushed hopes that a new generation would shape the country’s future by promising to defer to his ailing brother, Fidel ...

Raul Castro's longtime confidante Jose Ramon Machado Ventura will be No. 2 in the leadership, and Vice President Ramiro Valdes is No. 3. "Raul Castro has been named first secretary of Cuba's Communist ...

Former Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern said he plans to board a plane to Cuba on Friday and visit old friend Fidel Castro for the first time in nearly 17 years. McGovern, who turns ...

HAVANA (AP) — Fidel Castro, who led his bearded rebels to victorious revolution in 1959, embraced Soviet-style communism and defied the power of 10 U.S. presidents during his half-century of rule in ...

A generation of Cuban revolutionaries who seized power more than six decades ago, directly challenging the U.S. and later pushing Washington and Moscow to the brink of nuclear war, is set to exit the ...

“There is no advantage to the U.S. in sending an ambassador to a country (himself to Cuba in 1957) if the CIA officials there act on their own and take an opposite position,” wrote ambassador Earl T.

Good old Fidel Castro is like a leopard that doesn't change spots. He's been Cuba's dictator for more than 40 years and he isn't about to change. Evidence of that is the recent release of 75 ...

HAVANA (Reuters) - Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro said on Wednesday his brother President Raul Castro did not fire two old fellow revolutionaries who lost their jobs in a government shake-up this ...

A generation of Cuban revolutionaries who seized power more than six decades ago, directly challenging the U.S. and later pushing Washington and Moscow to the brink of nuclear war, is set to exit the ...