MIAMI — I first heard about Fidel Castro's death in a text message from my mother. I read the short note — "Fidel Castro is dead" — and immediately ran for the door. I had to update the ...

BIRAN, Cuba – Not long after Fidel Castro’s new government began seizing farms and cattle ranches in a voracious expropriation campaign, his mother, Lina Ruz, looked out the window one … ...

Sixteen New York Times journalists recount their work on the Cuban revolutionary’s obituary, first drafted in 1959.

For nearly a half-century, Fidel Castro helped bring the world to the brink of nuclear war, tormented 11 American presidents and exerted almost total control over the last remaining communist ...

Fidel Castro's death comes at a time of a changing relationship between the U.S. and Cuba and a changing administration here at home. Nearly two years ago, the Obama administration and Castro's ...

MIAMI — Juanita Castro, the sister of Cuban rulers Fidel and Raúl Castro who worked with the CIA against their communist government, has died in Miami at 90. Florida had been her home since ...

A road marker near Fidel and Raúl Castro’s home town of Bíran, in Cuba. Photograph by Mirissa Neff Bíran lies twelve hours from Havana, in a fertile sugar valley near Cuba’s far eastern tip.

A Noiser podcast production. Narrated by Paul McGann. Featuring Michael Bustamante, Anthony DePalma, Lillian Guerra, Orlando ...

In a new tell-all book, Fidel Castro's former bodyguard, Juan Reinaldo Sanchez, exposes the drug dealing and deception of the former Cuban president. Alex Quesada ; Getty Images The end of 1988. A ...

Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro, the charismatic icon of leftist revolution who thrust his Caribbean nation onto the world stage by provoking Cold War confrontation and defying U.S. policy ...

For 17 years, Juan Reinaldo Sanchez served as bodyguard to Fidel Castro. But when he became disillusioned with the Cuban dictator’s hypocrisy and tried to retire in 1994, Castro had him thrown ...

Although Castro's assault failed, storming the Moncada Barracks on July 26, 1953 catapulted him onto the Cuban national stage.