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 ...

While just a footnote to his long political career, Castro also was a basketball ... started with a satirical blog post titled: "How Fidel Castro Invented the Euro Step: A Brief Oral History." ...

Fidel Castro's life story is not the story of the leader of a poor underdeveloped nation struggling to survive against the fierce opposition of the United States. For four decades, Castro ...

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 year 1961 was supposed to be “The Year of Education” in Fidel Castro’s Cuba. Last week the slogan was enlarged. It is now also “The Year of the Firing Squad.” The announcement was ...

Fidel Castro's offer to swap rebel prisoners for heavy-duty tractors has raised a strange debate, in which every speaker seems to vie for irrelevancy. On the one side there are those like Richard ...

Kennedy's tough-guy reputation emerged from a career of battles. He waged moral crusades against dangers including foreign enemies (communism, Fidel Castro, the U.S.S.R.); domestic adversaries ...

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 ...