Tag: Fidel Castro
New Year’s poll: Americans hopeful for a better 2017
Emotionally wrenching politics, foreign conflicts and shootings at home took a toll on Americans in 2016, but they are entering 2017 on an optimistic...
U.S. election voted top news story of 2016
The turbulent U.S. election, featuring Donald Trump's unexpected victory over Hillary Clinton in the presidential race, was the overwhelming pick for the top news...
Two US officials to attend Fidel Castro’s funeral in Cuba
White House spokesman Josh Earnest says a high-ranking presidential adviser and the top diplomat to Cuba will represent the United States at Fidel Castro's...
Donald Trump aides say Cuban government will have to change
The Cuban government must move toward enacting greater freedoms for its people and giving Americans something in return if it wants to keep warmer...
Weeping, hopeful, Cubans look to future without Fidel Castro
Music fell silent, weddings were canceled and people wept in the streets Saturday as Cubans faced their first day without the leader who steered...
Cuba’s Fidel Castro, who defied U.S. for 50 years, dies at...
Former President Fidel Castro, who led a rebel army to improbable victory in Cuba, embraced Soviet-style communism and defied the power of 10 U.S....
Martin Dyckman: Cowards who stand aside
“Once to every man and nation
“Comes the moment to decide
“In the strife of truth with falsehood
“For the Good or Evil side
.....
“Then it is the...
Marco Rubio discusses hard-line Cuba stance, island’s future
By the time the next president enters the Oval Office, U.S. airlines could be flying regularly scheduled flights to Cuba, a result of President Barack...
A conversation with Marco Rubio on Cuba, family ties
As Marco Rubio campaigns for the Republican presidential nomination, he's pledging to bring generational change to Washington. Yet Rubio's policy toward Cuba hinges on...
Ted Cruz book says his dad asked to fight alongside Fidel...
Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz's father was a 1950s Cuban revolutionary who longed to slip into the island's eastern mountains and join Fidel Castro's...
