Fidel Castro News

Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro had a nine-hour meeting Friday with intellectuals invited to a book fair, the country's official website Cubadebate reported Saturday.

Dance lovers of the Okanagan! One of the world's great ballet companies is visiting Kelowna this week.

When it started, American teenagers were doing "The Twist." The United States had yet to put a man into orbit around the Earth.

Bozell: It's 'Hilarious' CNN Suspended Roland Martin for Inoffensive Tweet; Maybe 'Lefty Loons at MSNBC' Can 'Scoop Him Up' Now In the final segment of the show bearing his name, Bashir made the case without specifically saying it that the Republican Party is too racist for Cuban-American Sen.

FreedomForCuba : pototo, Cuba has been lost for a long time and the USA is nearly lost.

Decades after his education by Havana Jesuits, is Fidel Castro starting to feel kinda bad about the whole renouncing religion and being a hated dictator stuff? According to his Miami-based daughter Alina , the Marxist in fact has "come closer to religion" as he edges stubbornly toward death.

A student at AndrA©s Bello Catholic University, Yesman Utrera climbs down a steep, shoddy staircase in between jaunty houses built on the hillside of his barrio and complains of the unfulfilled promises of the man he once admired.

Sexy, sweet and laced with a sadness at once specific to its place and time and accessible to anyone with a breakable heart, "Chico & Rita" is an animated valentine to Cuba and its music.

Former Cuban President Fidel Castro during the presentation of the two volumes of his new book of memories 'Guerrillero del tiempo '. AFP Cuba on Thursday opened its 21st annual international book fair, the high point of the communist nation's cultural calendar, with a new book by former president and revolutionary icon Fidel Castro.

Venezuela's opposition supporters on Sunday vote in a primary election for a candidate to challenge President Hugo Chavez in an October 7 presidential election.

Antonio Jorge, a respected and prolific Cuban economist who also served in several top administrative posts at Florida International University and St.

There is no question that Americans are frustrated with their elected officials, but the latest Gallup poll shows that frustration has reached a fever pitch, plummeting Congress to its lowest approval rating in history.

Imagine the line queued up behind Fidel Castro - he of the hours-long speeches to the Cuban people he led for almost five decades - if he went to confession when Pope Benedict XVI comes to town.

There was a fun article by Dana Milbank in the Washington Post today, claiming that Obama is enjoying himself these days, and that it's better to be lucky than smart.

For this week's issue of the New Statesman , Jemima Khan interviewed -- on the same day -- both of the leading contenders for the 2012 London mayoral election: the incumbent, Boris Johnson , and the inaugural mayor, Ken Livingstone.

'Your excellency, dear Dr. [Bouthaina] Sha'aban I hope this letter finds you well.

"What's going to happen in Iran? What's going to happen in the Near East? What's going to happen in Syria?" he asked at the event, which took place on Friday.

"Greece's prime minister, Lucas Papademos, was on the brink of a deal tonight to avoid a chaotic default by the debt-choked country, with officials saying an agreement would 'almost certainly' be clinched when talks resumed on Wednesday.

Though just 34, Riolama Lorenzo has devoted more than half her life to the dance.

When it started, American teenagers were doing "The Twist." The United States had yet to put a man into orbit around the Earth.