As with many other Cubans in their 70s, Alina Fernández’s first memory of Fidel Castro was watching his interminable speeches on television.

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 ...

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 ...

Cuban dictator Fidel Castro died Friday night at the age of 90, but the task of assessing his legacy has barely begun. We begin with a look back at Castro the man, by Martha Teichner, in our Sunday ...

Fidel Castro's ashes were being interred in a private ceremony Sunday morning, ending nine days of mourning for the man who ruled Cuba for nearly half a century. Subscribe to read this story ad-free ...

Fidel Castro was one of the most polemical political personalities of the twentieth century. His complex historical legacy will be admired by some and despised by others. The son of an affluent ...

Raul Castro, Cuba's acting President, delivers a speech in honor of the 54th anniversary of the attack on the Moncada barracks.Sven Creutzmann / Mambo Photo / Getty Of all the long-winded speeches ...

Fidel Castro's death comes at a time of a changing relationship between the U.S. and Cuba and a changing administration here at home. Nearly two years ago, the Obama administration and Castro's ...