But if anyone in Mexico City planned to mark the occasion this year at the Monumento Encuentro — the dual sculpture of Fidel ...

One morning, a citizen wakes up to find the statue of Christopher Columbus has disappeared from its plinth; another day, ...

The Cuban Revolution leaders joined forces in Mexico in 1955. A local mayor removed a memorial to them, drawing protests and ...

Cuba's once-promising economy, fueled by sugar exports and booming tourism, was dramatically destroyed by Fidel Castro's ...

Castro led Cuba from 1959 to 2008, when he underwent emergency surgery for intestinal bleeding and ceded power to his brother Raúl Castro. Much of Fidel's rule was characterized by opposition to ...

Longtime Cuban leader Fidel Castro, the bearded, cigar-smoking Communist revolutionary who infuriated the United States, inspired both loyalty and loathing from his countrymen and maintained an ...

Fidel Castro, the revolutionary leader who put Cuba on the world stage and made himself a world player, died on Friday, his brother Raul Castro announced on state-run television. He was 90.

As Fidel Castro's Communist leanings became clear in 1961, President John F. Kennedy approved an attack of Cuba meant to overthrow Castro in the ill-fated Bay of Pigs invasion.

MIAMI — Fidel Castro didn't meet with President Obama during his visit to the island last week, but the retired Cuban leader responded Monday with a long, testy letter that concluded: "We don't ...

Former President Fidel Castro, who led a rebel army to improbable victory in Cuba, embraced Soviet-style communism and defied the power of 10 U.S. presidents during his half century rule, has died ...

— -- With the death of Fidel Castro, the father of the Cuban revolution, many questions hang over the future of Cuba.President Raul Castro, Fidel's 85-year-old brother, has been leading the ...