Reed’s is one of six lives served up by historian Simon Hall in his new book. Three of them are revolutionaries — Vladimir ...

Gloria Estefan still has the Pan Am tickets her father, José, sent her and her mother to get them out of Cuba. Gloria was two ...

In 'Mujib's Blunders', Manash Ghosh examines the blunders committed by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman after becoming the chief ...

Gloria was two years old at the time and José – previously a security guard for the ousted president Fulgencio Batista – had been jailed when Fidel Castro took power in the 1959 revolution.

Gloria was two years old at the time and José – previously a security guard for the ousted president Fulgencio Batista – had been jailed when Fidel Castro took power in the 1959 revolution.

Gloria Estefan still has the Pan Am tickets her father, José, sent her and her mother to get them out of Cuba. Gloria was two years old at the time and José – previously a security guard for the ...

Gloria was two at the time and Jose – previously a security guard for the ousted president Fulgencio Batista – had been jailed when Fidel Castro took power in the 1959 revolution.

Fulgencio Batista was hardly ripe for retirement. He talked of a long trip among Cuba’s neighbor countries; perhaps the ex-cane-chopper dreamed of becoming a voice in all Latin America.

As it happened, the pope has several generations of Cuban ancestors.

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Genealogists in Miami discovered that Pope Leo XIV has several generations of Cuban ancestors on his mother’s side, dating back to the 17th century.