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 … ...

The National Institute of Sports, Physical Education and Recreation (Inder, for its Spanish acronym) and the South African ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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.

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

Claims that Fidel Castro and Margaret Trudeau had an affair that produced the current Canadian prime minister are implausible.