Cuba recently erupted in the largest protests seen there in six decades, reflecting popular anger over a crippling economic crisis, scarce food and medicines and a half-century of repression. Cuba remains largely an enigma to outsiders, and especially to ...

President Trump's pressure campaign against Venezuela is the latest in a long saga of U.S. intervention in the region that is rooted in the 1823 Monroe Doctrine — and is a mix of success and failure.

MIAMI (CBSMiami/CNN) -- Raul Castro is stepping down as head of the Community Party in Cuba. Friday's confirmation ends an era of formal leadership by he and his brother Fidel Castro that began with the 1959 revolution. When Castro announced three years ...

Cuba’s Castro dynasty has officially ended. On April 16, 2021, Raul Castro – younger brother of longtime Cuban leader Fidel Castro – relinquished his position as first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba, the most powerful position in Cuba.

The Castro reign has ended in Cuba after its Communist Party leader, Raul Castro, 89, the island nation's former president, formally announced that he is stepping down from the position on Friday, according to the Associated Press. The decision will end ...

The son of a wealthy landowner, Fidel Castro turned his back on a life of privilege to lead a left-wing revolution in Cuba that endured for decades and was shaped by his political cunning, keen sense of destiny and boundless ego. Castro, who has died at ...

HAVANA, Nov 26 (Reuters) - Fidel Castro, the Cuban revolutionary leader who built a communist state on the doorstep of the United States and for five decades defied U.S. efforts to topple him, died on Friday, state-run Cuban Television said. He was 90.

The broadcasts from Cuba came booming in over Florida radios, nearly blotting out local U.S. stations. By flipping a dial on their TV sets, residents of Key West could see as well as hear the spectacle. In an Orwellian marathon lasting five nights running ...

HAVANA, April 16 (Reuters) - Raul Castro confirmed he was handing over the leadership of the Cuban Communist Party to a younger generation at its congress that kicked off on Friday, ending six decades of rule by himself and older brother Fidel. In a speech ...

Raul Castro announced in a speech on Sunday that he plans to step down as Cuba's president when his second five-year term ends in 2018. Fidel's little brother is getting old — he's 81 now — and it's time to start thinking about Cuba's future.

Cuba recently erupted in the largest protests seen there in six decades, reflecting popular anger over a crippling economic crisis, scarce food and medicines and a half-century of repression. Cuba remains largely an enigma to outsiders, and especially to ...