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Elian Gonzalez Joins Cuba's Communists

The Cuban boy at the center of an international custody battle eight years ago has joined Cuba's Young Communist Union.

Fidel Castro to step down as Cuba's leader - Los Angeles Times

Cuban leader Fidel Castro told compatriots early today that he would not accept another term as president, throwing open the Communist-ruled island's leadership for the first time in nearly 50 years.

Fidel Castro retires

Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro said on Tuesday that he will not return to lead the country as president or commander-in-chief, retiring as head of state 49 years after he seized power in an armed revolution.

Castro resigns as president, state-run paper reports

Fidel Castro announced his resignation as president of Cuba and commander-in-chief of Cuba's military on Tuesday, according to a letter published in the state-run newspaper, Granma.

Exclusive: Peace Corps, Fulbright Scholar Asked to 'Spy' on Cubans, Venezuelans

In an apparent violation of U.S. policy, Peace Corps volunteers and a Fulbright scholar were asked by a U.S. Embassy official in Bolivia "to basically spy" on Cubans and Venezuelans in the country, according to Peace Corps personnel and the Fulbright scholar involved.

Bush To God : Please Kill Fidel Castro, Soon

President Bush was asked for his thoughts about Cuban dictator Fidel Castro the other day. He responded that God will take care of him. As in kill him off, in time.

CIA documents point to massive and ongoing government criminality

The CIA s release Wednesday of a nearly 700-page, previously classified set of documents known within the agency as the family jewels has served to spotlight rampant state criminality in Washington that continues to this day.

CIA admits Castro plot OK’d at the top

Bay of Authorization? Buried deep in the hundreds of historical documents the CIA declassified Tuesday is a memo that reveals for the first time that the Kennedy administration s CIA director, Allen Dulles, personally approved a plot to assassinate Cuban President Fidel Castro.

Cuba says Castro's life not in danger

"The Cuban leader will always fight until the last moment. But that last moment is very far away," National Assembly President Ricardo Alarcon said in the first word from Cuba on Castro's condition since Monday evening's announcement he was handing over power provisionally to his brother. Monday's news that the 79-year-old Castro was undergoing surgery for gastrointestinal bleeding set off street parties in Miami by Cuban exiles who yearn for the demise of the West's only communist government.

Castro's health crisis could transform island, exiles here

In a stunning development, Cuban leader Fidel Castro temporarily ceded presidential power to brother Ra l Castro due to ''an intestinal crisis with sustained bleeding'' that required ''complicated surgery,'' according to a letter read Monday night on Cuban television. In South Florida, where the Cuban exile community has awaited such news for decades, word of Monday night's developments swept through the region and something very close to jubilation reigned in Little Havana and elsewhere.

Castro ballistic at rich 'slur'

Cuban President Fidel Castro may be one of the world's longest serving leaders, but he furiously denies a Forbes magazine story ranking him among the richest. The US financial magazine estimated Castro's wealth at $900 million, up from last year's estimate of $550 million.

Fidel Castro burns his underpants

The latest details on the world's longest surviving head of state and government, as provided by one of his former personal assistants, Delphin Fernandez. The picture that emerges is of a man obsessed with his health and security.