paying insufficient attention to an important century before 1959. Cuba has become a political punching bag, between supporters and critics of Castro and the Revolution, making it difficult to ...

Cuba, before Castro, did not have ration cards ... Now, these are facts of life. Cuba had rich and middle classes and poor citizens, like this country. Now, thanks to Castro’s political system ...

Carlos Eire has firsthand experience with the reality of life in Cuba under the communist ... the first wave of immigrants, who knew Cuba before Castro. Those arriving now have never known ...

The Chinese example may prompt Castro to make that change even before he is incapacitated ... much to the chagrin of the exile community. Cuba’s growing focus on life after Fidel leaves the ...

In light of the death of Cuba’s longtime leader Fidel Castro, we look back at what daily life was like for Cubans under Castro. National Geographic photographer David Alan Harvey captured these ...

Before there was a Castro in Cuba there was a Batista ... I think the Cubans have a sense of dignity, have a much better life. People here have jobs, secure jobs. You don't see scenes of drug ...

even as Cuba maintained a reputation as a tourist haven and a haunt for Ernest Hemingway, the island’s politics were almost continually unsettled. After Fidel Castro’s 1953 uprising against ...

they would say, and most of them would get it – BC meant “Before Castro.” Those license plates are a political statement from Beato, 64, a former child refugee from Cuba. They also inspired ...

Castro, who died Friday night at 90, gained global stature with grand visions: confronting the United States; building universal health care and education; sending ... aspects of life in the ...

Germinares Cardero Céspedes lives in hilly Segundo Frente, a coffee-growing community at the eastern end of Cuba where Fidel ...

Castro, an expatriate who spent most of her life in Miami, was confirmed dead ... Luis Zúñiga Rey, who was a political prisoner in Cuba before being expelled in 1988, said Wednesday that he ...