Fidel Castro’s revolutionary career began while he was enrolled at the School of Law of the University of Havana, when he participated in resistanc...

Fidel Castro turned Cuba into the first communist state in the Western Hemisphere. He enacted sweeping reforms over the almost five decades that he...

Fidel Castro was born out of wedlock. He was conceived through an extramarital affair between his father, Ángel Castro y Argiz, a well-to-do sugarc...

Fidel Castro professed to be Marxist after assuming leadership of Cuba. Even prior to that, the staunchly anti-communist U.S. government had suspic...

In the years directly prior to Fidel Castro’s retirement, Cuba was undergoing immense changes. These changes were brought on in part by the 1991 co...

Whether the U.S. should maintain its embargo against Cuba begun during the political rule of Fidel Castro is hotly debated. Some say Cuba has not m...