October 16, 1953 – Castro is sentenced to 15 years in prison. May 15, 1955 – Fidel and Raul Castro are released as part of a general amnesty for political prisoners. They go into exile in Mexico.

Aleida Guevara even evoked the spirit of the dead Fidel Castro as she delivered her rabble-rousing call at a leftwing conference. She said: “When people raise their voice to struggle for a just ...

Summer: Batista's forces launch a last, unsuccessful push against a small guerrilla army led by Fidel castro and based in the mountains of the Sierra Maestra. January 1: Revolutionary leader ...

ending long era in Cuba Raul Castro says he is resigning as head of Cuba's Communist Party, ending an era of formal leadership by he and his brother Fidel Castro that began with the 1959 revolution.

When writer Gabriel García Márquez, a close friend of Fidel Castro's, narrated a profile about him, he remarked how he had seen him finish a copious lunch taking no less than 18 spoonfuls of ice cream ...

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But what if you’re not sure it’s your voice fighting its way up your throat? Argentine writer-director Lucio Castro dangles this question in “After This Death,” a quivery, elusive and strangely moving ...