Fidel Castro's car arrived first ... Castro's own account recalls a sergeant approaching him with a gun, but sparing his life with the words "ideas are not to be murdered." In reality the sergeant ...

The year 1961 was supposed to be "The Year of Education" in Fidel Castro's Cuba. Last week the slogan was enlarged. It is now also "The Year of the Firing Squad." ...

Five uniformed judges sat at a table while guards with machine guns watched spectators munching ... This was exactly the message that Fidel Castro wanted the case of Jim Buchanan to deliver ...

including a pistol belonging to the late Fidel Castro. The announcement was made at a meeting in Havana between the FAR Command Element and a Zimbabwean delegation headed by President Emmerson ...

Raul Castro salutes the tomb of his older brother Fidel Castro shortly after his ashes ... At the other end of the island in the capital, Havana, a 21-gun salute could be heard across the city.