Topic: Fulgencio Batista
Political analysts have always said Fidel Castro 's movement ruined Cuba. Che Guevara was an Argentinian rebel who went about Latin America hoping to spark the perfect, peoples' revolution. During the mid 1950s, Castro met up with Castro in Mexico City . However ...
In a beachside neighborhood I flagged down a powder blue Cadillac with fins. But there was almost no way to move in Cuba without breaking the law. Miramar was a grid of trees and broken sidewalks west of central Havana where hotels ...
Although it can be an exciting subject to teach, making world history accessible for elementary, middle and high school students can be difficult. One of the best ways to get students to understand how people lived and acted and why they did ...
Americans can't travel to Cuba, but tourists from other parts of the world-mostly Europe and Canada-visit the island for its beaches, culture, Spanish colonial architecture and vintage American cars. The tourism industry has saved Cuba from economic ruin more than once-most ...
Juan Gonzalez loves Fidel Castro. "It sounds like the kind of rugged individualism that would resonate with Americans, but this is the mountainous Sierra Maestra of eastern Cuba, the cradle of the revolution that brought Castro to power 50 years ago New ...
From jungle hut, Castro led final phase of a revolution that turns 50 on ThursdayBefore he was Cuba's unchallenged " Maximum Leader," Fidel Castro was a guerrilla warrior who slept in a hut made of sticks and palm leafs, with a hole-in-the-ground ...
Today in HistoryToday is Thursday, Jan. 8th, the eighth day of 2009. On Jan. 8, 1935, rock-and-roll legend Elvis Presley was born in Tupelo, Miss.On this date: In 1798, the Eleventh Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was declared in effect ...
As Cuba's revolution turns 50, an aging Castro's grip is softer at edges, unyielding at heartIn the palace of a fallen dictator, the grade-school kids in their red Communist Pioneer bandanas are getting their mandatory introduction to the glories of ...
EDITOR'S NOTE Anita Snow has covered Cuba for 12 years and opened The Associated Press bureau in Havana in 1999. Moving on, they stare at the yacht named Granma that carried Fidel Castro back from exile to launch his guerrilla war ...
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Health officials concerned about increase in leptospirosis deathsSANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — An outbreak of the waterborne disease leptospirosis has killed 19 people and sickened more than 130 others in communities flooded by Tropical Storm Noel, the Dominican health minister ...
