Published time: 2 Feb, 2018 04:16 Edited time: 2 Feb, 2018 04:24 Fidel Castro Diaz-Balart, the eldest son of Cuban revolution icon Fidel, took his own life after a battle with depression. Watch “Fidelito” talk about the fate of revolutions and revolutionaries, in this ‘Worlds Apart’ interview. A prominent nuclear scientist in Cuba, Fidel Castro Diaz-Balart […]
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JFK Files reveal CIA efforts to take out Castro
Published time: 10 Nov, 2017 20:29 The latest batch of documents from President John F Kennedy’s assassination has been released by the National Archives, with details of the CIA’s multiple attempts to assassinate Cuban leader Fidel Castro among the pack. Many of the 13,000 newly released files are documents that had been available before, but […]
1950s vibe, blue waters and great cigars: Discover Cuba after Castro
PH A picture-postcard sunset at the resort There are two speeds in Cuba – slow and stationary. The country may be opening up to tourism more, but there’s still a very 1950s vibe about the place – and it is all the more lovely for it. We stayed in Cayo Santa Maria, 100 miles off […]