Events in Venezuela, Cuba and beyond suggest that a particular brand of leftism is in its twilight in Latin America, writes ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, July 31 (Reuters) - Eusebio Leal, a historian and orator who befriended Fidel Castro and led the reconstruction of the crumbling historic center of Havana, died on Friday morning from a ...