The Cuban regime has once again resorted to its familiar tactic of political disqualification to justify the country's ...

Fulgencio Batista—who had been Cuba’s behind-the-scenes ruler for some ten years—seized Cuba by army coup. Castro, a candidate for Congress in the elections that Batista canceled ...

Batista became Cuba's strongman behind a succession ... That individual turned out to be a daring young lawyer named Fidel Castro. Even Castro -- a dynamic national figure following his failed ...

On January 1, 1959, Cuba’s military dictator Fulgencio Batista fled the country and the rebels, led by Che Guevara and Fidel Castro, celebrated in Havana, ending the Cuban Revolution. Death toll ...

It had been about three months since the revolution toppled U.S.-backed President Fulgencio Batista, and Castro’s anti-American speeches and alliances with the island’s leftists were less than ...

Summer: Batista's forces launch a last, unsuccessful push against a small guerrilla army led by Fidel castro and based in the mountains of the Sierra Maestra. January 1: Revolutionary leader ...

At the height of the Cold War, on 1 January 1959, a guerrilla army led by Fidel Castro defeated the US-backed Batista government. Attempts by the US government to undermine Castro's new ...

The Batista regime was extremely unpopular with the Cuban people. In 1956, Fidel Castro and Che Guevara gathered a force of guerrilla fighters and started a revolutionary war against government ...

Delivered just one year after the Cuban Revolution that led to the overthrow of the U.S.-backed dictator Fulgencio Batista, Castro used his time on the rostrum to criticize U.S. imperialism and ...