Castro's goal was to rouse the people to insurgency, hoping that the army would join the people and force Batista from power. "Even if it failed," Fidel noted, "it would be heroic and have ...

"The glorious soldiers of the rebel army and the national revolutionary ... to liberate our homeland from the despotic rule of Fidel Castro and rid Cuba of international cruelty and oppression." ...

Fidel Castro shares at least one belief with the ... But he blames JFK for the invasion of the Bay of Pigs by a ragtag Cuban exile army: “Kennedy was humiliated by his defeat at the Bay of ...

The International Workers' Day parade is taking place at Havana’s Revolution Square, attended by Army General Raúl Castro Ruz ...

Havana workers celebrated this Thursday May Day at the Revolution Square, with the presence of President Miguel Díaz-Canel ...

At the height of the Cold War, on 1 January 1959, a guerrilla army led by Fidel Castro defeated the US-backed Batista government. Attempts by the US government to undermine Castro's new ...

Army General Raúl Castro expressed his sorrow over the death of Pope Francis, whom he described as a tireless advocate for ...

Julio Antonio del Marmol is the son of the principal financier behind Castro's Revolution ... Commandos of the Rebel Army. In this position, he was a part of Fidel's inner circle, and so saw ...

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 ...