Because guys would walk in there with full sleeve tattoos and say ... Once, during a gig in Havana, he learned that Fidel Castro had a baseball team called the Barbudos, or the Bearded Ones.

The iconic image of Che Guevara known around the world is based on a brief, fleeting snapshot taken by chance by a photographer who was attending a funeral 65 years ago. That portrait of the guerilla ...

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 ...