The three-minute ceremony at Santiago de Cuba’s Santa Ifigenia Cemetery ended nine days of public mourning for the charismatic but polarizing revolutionary who led Cuba for half a century, CNN reports. Cuban President Raul Castro slid the box of ashes ...

Castro toppled the government in 1959, introducing a Communist revolution. He defied the US for decades, surviving many assassination plots, BBC reports. His supporters said he had given Cuba back to the people. Critics saw him as a dictator. Castro ...

Named as “The Concert for Amity,” the band is set to perform tonight at the Ciudad Deportiva de La Habana, with an estimated 400,000 gests to attend, making it the largest act to play in Cuba since the revolution in ...