In the first half of the twentieth century, Cuba was the biggest producer of sugar in the world, and sugar represented 80 percent of the country’s exports. This dependence on a single crop left the ...

The Batista regime was extremely unpopular with the Cuban people. In 1956 ... war against government forces. By 1958, the revolution had spread throughout Cuba, culminating in the fall of Havana ...

Rather than honor the pre-victory democratic pledges ... of Castro which shapes the book's entire analysis of the Cuban revolution. Consider this passage: "... once power came into [Castro ...

Hari Sreenivasan speaks… On the 50th anniversary of the revolution that brought Fidel Castro to power in Cuba, analysts mull U.S.-Cuban relations and efforts to reform the economy and politics ...

Of all the aspects of the Cuban Revolution, none has had a greater impact on America than the immigration of over one million Cubans to the United States. Settling mostly in Miami, but also ...

Forty-five years after the Cuban communist regime successfully defeated ... night's event marking the anniversary of his regime's 1961 victory in the Bay of Pigs, more commonly known as Giron ...

HAVANA, Dec. 9, 1955 (UP) - Two weeks of bloody student uprisings appeared Friday to follow the pattern of the student riots that deposed Cuban Dictator Gerardo Machado 22 years ago.Since the ...