HAVANA (Reuters) - Fidel Castro steps down as Cuba's head of state on Sunday after 49 years at the helm, but at least for the coming months is likely to retain influence over all aspects of Cuban life ...

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Long before Fidel Castro proclaimed the “socialist character” of his revolution on April 1961, the new regime was already on the path to communism and was “discreetly” placing sympathizers in key ...

Fidel Castro, Cuba’s dictator for almost five decades, relinquished his official title Tuesday. Still, he is not gone, and his influence will continue. His official successor as “president” may ...

Fidel Castro is leaving on his own terms. He is bequeathing Cuba to his brother Raul, and he won't give his enemies the satisfaction of dying without resolving the succession. Commentator Andrei ...

On April 19, 1959, Fidel Castro appeared on “Meet the Press” for his first visit to the United States since the Cuban revolution, nearly three months earlier. When asked if he was a Communist, he said ...