Fidel Castro would have reached the age of 100 on Thursday, and his long shadow continues to cast over the island. While he remains revered by some who miss him amid a severe US energy blockade, ...

The burial of Fidel Castro’s remains this morning, in Cuba’s second city of Santiago, at the far end of the island from Havana, is a symbolic homecoming for the late revolutionary leader. Santiago is ...

With his shaggy beard and rumpled, olive-drab fatigues, Fidel Castro presented himself to the world as a modest man of the people. At times, he claimed he made just 900 pesos ($43) a month and lived ...

HAVANA, Cuba — Fidel Castro would have turned 100 on Thursday, and his long shadow continues to loom over the island as he ...

The island is celebrating Castro’s 100th birthday with foreign Communist dignitaries as it struggles with economic collapse.

FIDEL CASTRO never asked to be remembered through statues or anniversaries. If his centenary means anything today, it is as a ...

Reflect on Fidel Castro's enduring legacy as a revolutionary leader inspiring global unity and socialism on his centenary.

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Fidel Castro, from 1959 to 2006 the world’s longest-running Marxist dictator, is dead at the age of 90. He was no friend of the Cuban people, or of Cuban Catholics. He was a brutal leader who was ...

Reporting from MATANZAS, Cuba — A white helicopter circling above the central Plaza of Liberty signaled that the long-awaited moment was imminent. Onlookers who had been waiting for hours were lined ...

Sixteen New York Times journalists recount their work on the Cuban revolutionary’s obituary, first drafted in 1959. Related Article Every Mexico correspondent in recent years, myself included, ...