A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On April 17, 1961, some 1,400 CIA-trained ...

Cuban Revolution Collection, Manuscripts & Archives, Yale University Library In Mid-January 1959, Fidel Castro and his comrades in revolution had been in power less than a month. Criticized in the ...

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.

Former Cuban President Fidel Castro has held a meeting with ... The meeting with Raul Castro was front-page news in the ruling Communist Party's Granma newspaper on Tuesday, which said the ...

She was killed because she was spilling secrets to [former Cuban strongman] Fidel [Castro] from the CIA,” she said. “Makes you wonder who else is in the CIA.” In a more recent post ...

Four months after his rebel forces overthrew Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista, Fidel Castro accepted an invitation from the American Society of Newspaper Editors to visit the United States.

I never personally met Fidel Castro Ruz, one of the iconic figures of the 20th Century. I only saw him once in the streets of Havana while he drove and the crowds cheered. On November 25 ...