The portable Castro: Cuba issues Fidel dictionary

Cubans accustomed to hourslong speeches, thousand-word essays and lengthy interviews can now get Fidel Castro at a glance, thanks to a new dictionary of El Comandante's teachings.

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Correction: Venezuela's oil shipments to Cuba

In a Jan. 11 story about Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's comments on Cuba, The Associated Press erroneously described Venezuela's oil deliveries to Cuba. Venezuela ships about 90,000 barrels of crude oil daily to Cuba, not 190,000 barrels daily.

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From a jungle hut, Castro led final push to power

Before he was Cuba's unchallenged "Maximum Leader," Fidel Castro was a guerrilla warrior who slept in a hut made of sticks and palm leafs, with a hole-in-the-ground outhouse at the bottom of a hill.

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Questions Remain on Fidel's Role

Fidel Castro is not fading away. Despite talking about a vacation and retirement, he has retained a role as commentator in chief — and possibly as commander in chief. He still heads the Communist Party, and will sign off on all major policy decisions, giving him a powerful role if he chooses to exercise it.

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Castro Legacy Holds Despite Resignation

Fidel Castro may have resigned as Cuba's president, but he remains a towering figure, loved and hated across continents. Long after he ditched his cigar and traded military fatigues for tracksuits, Castro remains both a Cold War icon and a model of resistance to the world's lone superpower.

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U.S. Probes 1997 Cuba Hotel Bombings

The plastic explosives were smuggled in bottles of White Rain and Prell shampoo, and in the soles of a pair of black leather boots. Fixed to Casio digital clocks and 9-volt batteries with black adhesive tape, they became powerful bombs. Some of them never detonated, and are now on public display in Havana as part of what Cuba calls a wealth of evidence against Fidel Castro's archenemy, Luis Posada Carriles, in a string of 1997 bombings targeting Havana hotels.

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Chavez-Castro Friendship Tricky for U.S.

One is a Cold War icon who has defied the United States for nearly a half-century. The other is a charismatic ex-military man who could be Washington's biggest Latin American nemesis for years to come.

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US President Barack Obama has engaged in an unprecedented written exchange with a blogger in Cuba who is openly critical of its communist government. His comments came after prize-winning blogger Yoani Sanchez sent questions chiefly about US-Cuba relations.

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America, Have We Lost Our Mind?

Sometimes I wonder. The man we have elected as the leader of the free world and his cronies are indoctrinating our children, taking Jesus out of religious songs and inserting dear leader Obama's name.

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Reflections Of Fidel

• REFLECTIONS OF FIDEL What went through my mind

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President Barack Obama is allowing Americans to make unlimited trips and money transfers to family in Cuba and easing other restrictions Monday to usher in a new era of openness toward the island nation ruled by communists for 50 years.

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Six members of the Congressional Black Caucus traveled to Cuba last week and were delighted with their reception. They met with Raul Castro for four hours (including dinner). Three lucky members of the delegation were even entertained by Fidel at his home.

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Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro has called for President Barack Obama to return the U.S. military base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to the communist nation.

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Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro has praised US President Barack Obama for his "honesty" but says he has many questions to answer. Mr Castro broke a five-week silence, writing an opinion column on a state-run internet site.

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Cuban President Raul Castro dismissed rumors that his older brother Fidel Castro was at death's door, saying on Wednesday he was mentally and physically active despite a long illness that has kept him out of public view.

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It's understandable why Americans are excited by the prospect of Barack Obama as president. He's their president, after all. Like the World Series in baseball, it's their game and it's their world.

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Fidel Castro is "working, writing and following the world situation," his friend Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez said on Friday after a prolonged silence from the 82-year-old former Cuban leader fueled speculation that his health was declining.

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Florida's Cuban-Americans have voted Republican for years. But the party could lose its grip on the heartland of exile opposition to Fidel Castro on Tuesday, signaling possible change in U.S. policy toward Cuba.

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Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said that he agreed "100 percent" with former Cuban leader Fidel Castro on the responsibility of rich countries for the world economic crisis after a two-hour meeting with him in Havana.

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Fidel Castro says a "profound racism" in the United States will stop millions from voting for Barack Obama in next month's presidential election.

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On Monday the 81-year old Castro published a column in the state-run Granma making it clear that although he disagrees with Obama's decision to maintain Washington's trade embargo against Cuba, he believes Obama is "doubtless, from the social and human points of view, the mos …

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Since Raul Castro replaced his elder brother Fidel, Cuban citizens have been able to purchase home computers. However, Cuba blames the U.S. embargo for not being able to offer Cubans comprehensive Internet service.

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Cuba urged its people to work harder and increase production at a short, snappy May Day parade Thursday, reflecting the businesslike style of new president Raul Castro. Yea, we'll get right on that Raul. Duh, can't imagine why we didn't think of that before.

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Most Americans expected that the passing of Castro -- however it should happen -- would be a convulsive event for Cuba. Instead, the changes happened peacefully and quietly, illustrating how U.S. perceptions of Cuba are, in general, painfully ignorant.

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And that it should end so ingloriously! No fighting to the last man at the battlements, no martyr's surrender to an assassin's bullet, only a creaking, shuffling exit through the ward's doors, hospital gown flapping.

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Unpredictability has long been the hallmark of social change in Cuba. Just when you think you know what's going to happen, you are invariably surprised by the twists and turns of a revolution that has always had its own logic, or lack of it. 

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Analyst Pablo Navarrete says Cuba's transition is already in place.

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After waiting his turn for nearly 50 years, Raul Castro traded in his military uniform for a tailored suit and became Cuba's new president on Feb. 24.

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Raúl Castro, one of the leaders of the Cuban revolution and a lifelong communist, is Cuba's new president as of Sunday. But he said he would listen to the views of Fidel, who he described as "not substitutable," as long as his older brother is around.

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Now that Fidel Castro has retired, perhaps he can find the time to work on his golf game.

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Cuba in Transition

Recently Fidel Castro has announced that he will not seek to continue as president of Cuba. Fidel has chosen his youngest brother, and current commander of the Cuban military, Raul Castro as his likely successor.

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"An ailing Fidel Castro resigned as Cuba's president Tuesday after nearly a half-century in power, saying he was retiring and will not accept a new term when the new parliament meets Sunday.

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