The year 1961 was supposed to be "The Year of Education" in Fidel Castro's Cuba. Last week the slogan was enlarged. It is now also "The Year of the Firing Squad." ...

THE words were those of Fidel Castro as he marked the 10th anniversary of his rule in Cuba last week ... their revolution and take over the Caribbean isle, and the years have taken their toll.

Castro’s reign over the island-nation 90 miles from Florida was marked by the U.S.-backed Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961 and the Cuban Missile Crisis a year later that brought the world to the ...

It will be clear that the egalitarian ideal is no more likely to be achieved in Cuba than elsewhere. Nevertheless, the area of unearned privilege has been heavily reduced over the past ten years and ...

The US is moving towards ending its 50-year ... embargo on Cuba, a breakthrough in American relations with the island nation. But at the height of the Cold War, the US was panicked over the ...