and the new Cuban leader Fidel Castro, whose visit in 1959 I covered for the “Harvard Crimson.” I was able to write about his speech at the football stadium and dine with him at President ...

Castro wrestles with Marxism and begins another affair. Attempting to reignite the revolution, he swims naked across the US border. At a get-together in Mexico City, he strikes up a rapport with a ...

Famously, he accused former ally Gabriel Garcia Marquez of being “a courtesan writer of Fidel Castro”, the start of a spat that turned ugly and personal with a notorious 1976 punch-up in ...

Guevara, the Argentine revolutionary who played a key role in Fidel Castro’s Cuban revolution, has long been a symbol of Marxist militancy and anti-imperialism. Guevara's writings advocated for ...

It is, at first blush, a startling idea: Donald Trump is cut from a cloth similar to that of Mao Zedong or Fidel Castro. But all three men are best understood as revolutionary leaders, dedicated ...

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 ...

Francis met with Fidel Castro at Castro’s home after he delivered Cuba’s largest papal Mass ever, before an estimated 200,000 people in Havana’s Revolution Square. President Barack Obama ...

Fidel Castro, Joseph Stalin, and Mao Zedong over their private interactions. “By agreeing to meet with Trump, allowing himself to be privately charmed by a charismatic leader and then sharing ...

In 1957, Herbert Matthews of the New York Times traveled to the Cuban mountains to interview Fidel Castro, then a little-known guerrilla leader. The reporter came back enthralled. “The ...

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 officials since he underwent emergency ...

He found it, temporarily, in Cuba. He arrived in Havana just as Fidel Castro’s rebel forces were sweeping down from the Sierra Maestra to topple the corrupt Batista dictatorship. After sampling the ...

From 1945 till the 1970s, the intelligence agency targeted several foreign leaders which it considered a threat to the US including Cuba’s Fidel Castro, Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo and ...