On the eve of Fidel Castro's 1959 revolution, Cuba was neither the paradise that would later be conjured by the nostalgic imaginations of Cuba's many exiles, nor the hellhole painted by many ...

America had been highly influential in Cuba since the early 1900s. Much of Cuba's industry was owned by US business and its main export, sugar, was controlled by the USA. In 1950s, Cuba was being ...

The dire economic situation in Cuba, paired with a chronic food shortage, has driven many to unimaginable extremes. As the ...

Cuba suffered a general blackout on Friday caused by a crash of its national electricity grid, officials said, the fourth major power outage on the cash-strapped island in five months.