The central leaders of the 1895 Cuban revolution were Maximo Gomez, ,Calixto Garcia, and Jose Marti. Gomez (1836-1905), who had dedicated more than half of his life to make Cuba free, became the ...

Hari Sreenivasan speaks… On the 50th anniversary of the revolution that brought Fidel Castro to power in Cuba, analysts mull U.S.-Cuban relations and efforts to reform the economy and politics ...

This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. The article claims that most historiography of the Cuban revolution of 1959 has omitted women, people of colour, and to some extent ...

The roots of U.S.-Cuba relations stretch back to the colonial era, long before the Cuban Revolution. In 1776, Spain opened Cuban ports to North American merchants, establishing early trade ties.

On 1st January, 1959, Cuban's right-wing government led by the dictator General Batista, was overthrown. Fidel Castro took control of Cuba. Political and economic tension rose between Cuba and the ...

A Spanish colony since the 15th century, following Christopher Columbus’s conquest of America, Cuba has always aspired to gain independence and take control of its destiny. In the early 19th century, ...

The Batista regime was extremely unpopular with the Cuban people. In 1956 ... war against government forces. By 1958, the revolution had spread throughout Cuba, culminating in the fall of Havana ...