All posts tagged "Fidel Castro"

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  Anti-Castro Cuban-American lawmakers see a champion in Trump

  Trump had said Obama wasn't paying enough attention to human rights on Cuba

  • Posted February 14, 2017
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  1st Cuban migrants land in Florida since Castro’s death

  MIAMI — Thirteen Cuban migrants who arrived early Tuesday in the Florida Keys aboard a homemade boat are the first to land on U.S. soil since Fidel Castro died, U.S. authorities said, adding they’re on alert amid...

  • Posted December 6, 2016
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  Cuba starts return to normal as mourning for Castro ends

  HAVANA — Music is playing in the streets again. Tourists are sipping mojitos at sidewalk cafes. Flags are flapping at full staff. After nine days of national mourning for Fidel Castro, Cuba is slowly returning to noisy,...

  • Posted December 6, 2016
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  Cuban exiles see only a glimmer of hope in Castro’s funeral

  MIAMI — In the heart of Miami’s Little Havana, Cuban exile Armando Garcia said Sunday’s funeral of Fidel Castro granted neither simple closure nor optimism for immediate change, but was a glimmer of hope for democracy in...

  • Posted December 5, 2016
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  Fidel Castro Laid to Rest in Private Ceremony in East Cuba

  SANTIAGO, Cuba – A wooden box containing Fidel Castro’s ashes was placed by his brother and successor on Sunday into the side of a granite boulder that has become Cuba’s only official monument to the charismatic bearded...

  • Posted December 4, 2016
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  Castro’s legacy: Cuban-Americans’ hefty clout in US politics

  His communist revolution in 1959 not only sent thousands of Cubans to the U.S. but engendered in them a fervor to resist communism at the height of the Cold War

  • Posted December 3, 2016
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  Miami Celebrations at Castro’s Death Shock Those in Havana

  MIAMI – For more than a decade, Maria Vazquez’s store had a special gift basket to celebrate Fidel Castro’s death. For $24.99, it includes a bottle of cider with the label “only open after Fidel’s death,” and...

  • Posted December 1, 2016
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  Cubans Line Streets as Fidel Castro’s Ashes Begin Journey

  HAVANA – To waving flags and some shouts of “Long may he live!” Fidel Castro’s ashes began a four-day journey across the island Wednesday, retracing the path of his triumphant march into Havana nearly six decades ago....

  • Posted November 30, 2016
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  First Commercial US-Havana Flight Lands as Country Mourns

  HAVANA (AP) – Passengers erupted into applause as the first commercial flight from the United States to Havana in more than 50 years landed in Cuba, arriving as the island begins week-long memorial services for revolutionary leader...

  • Posted November 28, 2016
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  Cuban-American millennials anticipate role in evolving Cuba

  MIAMI — Isabella Prio was born in Miami, is 20 now and a junior at Boston College who fully expects to return to Cuba someday and help shape the island’s future. But she’s never been to the...

  • Posted November 28, 2016