In 1961 Cuba was ruled by a leftist administration dominated by Prime Minister Fidel Castro. With the Cold War in full swing the United States didn...

Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez's ill health is likely to prevent him from being able to take his fourth oath of office before the National Assembly ...

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As nature gets more ferocious in this changing climatic era, our antidote to an increasing number of disasters has to be DRR which for the experienced Caribbean engineer, Tony Gibbs means that "great hurricanes and earthquakes (can) be experienced as fascinating and awesome events which, nevertheless, do not lead to disasters."

The cold war may be over - but the propaganda continues. The state-run website Cubadebate released pictures of Fidel Castro holding a newspaper on ...

Rumours are swirling Fidel Castro has suffered a stroke and is close to death. Venezuelan Dr Jose Marquina told El Nuevo Herald the 86-year-old ha...

Fidel Castro, communist revolutionary and leader of Cuba, hired former officers of the Nazi Waffen SS to train his troops during the Cuban missile, ne...

On 9 October 1967 Ernesto 'Che' Guevara was executed by a Bolivian army officer at the end of his ill-fated attempt to foment revolution throughout Latin America.

Barely a few weeks ago heads of state of all 33 Latin American and Caribbean countries converged in the city of Caracas to launch a new initiative for regional integration, the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, better known by its Spanish acronym CELAC (Comunidad de Estados Latinoamericanos y Caribeños).

PRESS ASSOCIATION -- A man and a woman whose sex-change operation was paid for by the state tied the knot in a first-of-its-kind wedding for Cuba, a s...