A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On April 17, 1961, some 1,400 CIA-trained ...

All three men are best understood as revolutionary leaders, dedicated to the destruction of institutional norms, says Ricardo ...

In 2009, 50 years after Fidel Castro's ascension to power, GOLF Magazine visited Cuba for a piece on the past and future of ...

Francisco Diaz, my father, was not one of them. He worked as a police captain at the University of Havana and had several ...

Cuban Revolution Collection, Manuscripts & Archives, Yale University Library In Mid-January 1959, Fidel Castro and his comrades in revolution had been in power less than a month. Criticized in the ...

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By The Associated Press Today is Thursday, April 17, the 107th day of 2025. There are 258 days left in the year. Today in ...

In Cuba, many citizens are penalized with fines, harassment, or even imprisonment for voicing opinions against the regime on ...

Fidel: 'how can we help President Obama? Former Cuban President Fidel Castro has held a meeting with three members of the US House of Representatives. The event was his first known meeting with US ...

Some 1,400 CIA-trained Cuban exiles launched the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in an attempt to topple Fidel Castro, whose forces crushed the incursion within three days.

Leo Baker, Wade Gray, Pete Ray and Riley Shamburger, members of the 117th Reconnaissance Wing Alabama Air National Guard, risked their lives as they invaded Cuba in a secretive CIA mission to ...

ending long era in Cuba Raul Castro says he is resigning as head of Cuba's Communist Party, ending an era of formal leadership by he and his brother Fidel Castro that began with the 1959 revolution.