Thousand Flock To Havana To Honor Fidel Castro

Cubans will pay final respects on Monday and Tuesday to the late president and revolutionary, known simply as “El Comandante” or “El Jefe” on the island.

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A student stands at attention holding images of Fidel Castro at the university where Castro studied law as a young man, during a vigil in Havana, Cuba, Sunday, Nov. 27, 2016. Castro, who led a rebel army to improbable victory in Cuba, embraced Soviet-style communism and defied the power of U.S. presidents during his half century rule, died Friday at age 90. (AP Photo/ Dario Lopez-Mills)

Thousands of Cubans are flocking to Havana’s Revolution Square Monday to pay final respects to revolutionary leader and former President Fidel Castro, who passed away Friday night at the age of 90. A long line of supporters snaked through the vast square as Cubans walked by a memorial to the former leader. Some mourners were in tears, others

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Cuba’s Support For Revolutions, Self-Defense Remains Largely Intact Despite Western Propoganda

Examining changes in the U.S.-Cuba relationship, one thing becomes clear: It’s the global situation — not Cuba — that has changed.

Caleb T. Maupin
By Caleb T. Maupin
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  WASHINGTON --- (Analysis) President Barack Obama’s recent visit to Cuba has been roundly condemned by his right-wing opponents. The fact that the visit coincided with the Brussels bombing has not been omitted from conservative diatribes. The conservative press voiced further outrage when it was revealed that Secretary of State John Kerry

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Fidel Castro Tells Obama: ‘We Don’t Need the Empire to Give us Anything.’

Leader of the Cuban Revolution refutes the U.S. President’s account of their countries’ shared history.

Lauren McCauley
By Lauren McCauley
Cuba President Fidel Castro gestures during an interview at the Presidential Palace for PBS’s MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour, Feb. 8, 1985, Havana, Cuba. Castro said closer U.S.-Cuban ties would ease global tensions but “I will not change a single one of my principles for a thousand relations with a thousands countries like the United States.” (AP Photo/Charles Tasnadi)

Former Cuban President Fidel Castro had a few things to say about U.S. President Barack Obama's recent visit to his island nation, writing in the state-run newspaper Granma on Monday, "We don’t need the empire to give us anything." The column, entitled "Brother Obama," takes aim at statements made by Obama during hishistoric visit to Cuba last

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Obama, Castro Speak By Phone Amid Bid To Restore Cuba Ties

The two leaders have been working to restore diplomatic ties, a move that sent shockwaves through Latin America when Obama and Castro announced it in tandem in December.

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By Associated Press

PANAMA CITY -- The presidents of the United States and Cuba have spoken by phone for only the second time in more than 50 years, setting the stage for a historic encounter between the two leaders at a regional summit starting Friday in Panama. The extraordinary call between President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro came on Wednesday,

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If Venezuela Is To Survive, Then Compromise Must Become The Country’s Watchword.

Recent protests in Caracas against the continued rule of Chavez’s political heirs suggest that the electoral revolution carried out by Venezuela’s late caudillo is a least a bit shaky.

Jeffrey Cavanaugh
By Jeffrey Cavanaugh
A demonstrator holds up a rosary during a protest

When Hugo Chavez, Venezuela’s democratically-elected strongman died last March, there was some question about how long the neo-socialist regime created by the late paratrooper-turned president would last. Would it endure as its founder intended, or totter and fall in a Latin version of a color revolution of the type that rocked Ukraine and Georgia

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