Following the capture of Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro in an operation in which several Cuban security officers died ...

A relative of Fidel and Raúl Castro has emerged as a potential contender to lead Cuba after President Miguel Díaz-Canel ...

MIAMI (AP) — Within half an hour of the Cuban government's official announcement that former President Fidel Castro had died, Miami's Little Havana teemed with life — and cheers. Thousands of people ...

The morning after the news broke late at night that Cuba’s Fidel Castro had died, the first person Patricia Espinosa Artiles called was her mother, who lives in a provincial town on the island.

It is Miguel Diaz-Canel, 66, who succeeded Raul Castro, Fidel’s younger brother, in 2018. Raul ran Cuba after Fidel stepped ...

On New Year's Day in 1959, dictator Fulgencio Batista flees Cuba, defeated by 26 months of guerrilla warfare spearheaded by the Castro brothers. Fidel declares victory in the southern city of Santiago ...

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HAVANA (AP) — The daughter of Cuban President Raul Castro sponsored a blessing ceremony Saturday for gay couples on an island where gay marriage remains illegal. Nearly two dozen gay couples held ...

HAVANA (AP) – She has her uncle’s penchant for speaking her mind. From her father, she inherited a disciplined tenacity. But Mariela Castro, a married mother of three and member of Cuba’s most ...