NAME: Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz. TITLES: Former president of Council of State and Council of Ministers, first secretary of Communist Party of Cuba, commander in chief of Cuba’s Revolutionary Armed ...

Children: with Natalia Revuelta: Alina; with unknown woman: Jorge Angel; with Dalia Soto del Valle: Alexis, Alexander, Antonio, Alejandro and Angel; with Mirta Diaz-Balart: Fidel “Fidelito” 1947 - ...

In the winter of his life, and with his political future unclear, Fidel Castro’s personal musings on subjects from the Cuban Missile Crisis to his successor are now accessible to Americans in a new ...

HAVANA - Fidel Castro once called George W. Bush a "functional illiterate." President Reagan was "the worst terrorist in the history of mankind," Castro said, with ideas "from the Buffalo Bill era." ...

HAVANA - Fidel Castro, the Cuban revolutionary leader who built a communist state on the doorstep of the United States and for five decades defied US efforts to topple him, died on Friday, his younger ...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is citing what he calls the “outsized role” that Fidel Castro played in the lives of Cuban people, and says Castro “influenced the direction of regional, even global ...

Following the death of Fidel Castro, it seemed as though everyone instantly became an expert on Castro and Cuban history. From the think pieces on how bad Castro was to even those praising the ...

The pope met privately with the Cuban revolutionary leader Sunday. — -- Photos captured the intimate, historic meeting between Pope Francis and Fidel Castro Sunday. The images show the leader of ...

Raul Castro's handpicked successor is not a member of his powerful family. Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez was born a year after Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro came to power. But now, he's tasked ...

In 2025, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass' past — particularly her alleged ties to Cuba, communism and former Cuban leader Fidel Castro — came under scrutiny on social media. Bass has visited Cuba ...

Assata Shakur, the Black Liberation Army member and fugitive with a $2 million FBI reward on her head, died in Havana where she had received political asylum from Fidel Castro, the Cuban Foreign ...