The U.S. government has announced sanctions against Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel and other officials for human rights ...

On July 9, 2011, the Republic of South Sudan declared its independence from Sudan and became Africa's 54th nation.

On Feb. 15, 1898, the island of Cuba was embroiled in a vicious war for Cuban independence and the American battleship “USS Maine was sent to protect American interests.” ...

Cubans rose up against Spain in first war for independence WHEN a Cuban plantation owner plotted rebellion against Spain he was forced to move it forward four days Troy Lennon History Editor 3 min ...

On January 1, 1959, Cuba’s military dictator Fulgencio Batista fled the country and the rebels, led by Che Guevara and Fidel Castro, celebrated in Havana, ending the Cuban Revolution.

In 1898 Cuba was fighting for independence from Spain. The United States entered the war and invaded Cuba to drive the Spanish out.

THE history of Cuba's rôle in international affairs since the establishment of the republic in 1902 falls into three well-defined periods. The first extends from 1902 to April 1917, when Cuba entered ...

Covert City: The Cold War And The Making Of Miami, Vince Houghton and Eric Driggs, Public Affairs, 211 pages When Miami-based exiles conducted a series of raids on Cuban vessels in 1963, the ...

Seventy-one years ago on July 26, 1953, 136 young Cuban revolutionaries led by 26-year-old Commandant Fidel Castro launched a daring assault on the Moncada Barracks in Santiago de Cuba. The attack ...

The San Carlos Institute was founded by Cuban exiles in 1871 as a school and civic center, three decades before Cuba became a republic in 1902 after the Spanish-American War.