Fidel Castro

Yasiel Puig's first act with Dodgers is a thriller

2013-06-06 05:00:00

Wednesday night's game between the Dodgers and the Padres wasn't held at Dodger Stadium, as scheduled. It took place at Yasiel Puig World. Disney might try to buy the place and raise ticket prices some more. Hours before the Cuban overnight...

Barbara Walters: Let the victory lap begin!

2013-05-13 10:40:00

Let the Barbara Walter's farewell tour begin! Monday's edition of "The View" opened with the show's founder and star fixing the camera with that fearless don't-let-the-strange-absence-of-wrinkles-fool-you-I've-been-on-television-for-50-years gaze and...

Barbara Walters to retire from TV journalism

2013-05-13 05:00:00

Barbara Walters is saying goodbye to TV journalism. After more than half a century in the industry, the veteran ABC News anchor plans to retire next summer, ABC announced Sunday night. Walters, 83, is set to make it official Monday morning on "The View....

There's nothing fishy about the Miami Marlins' implosion

2013-05-10 16:34:00

This weekend's series between the Dodgers and the Miami Marlins matches last-place teams that took wildly divergent routes to the cellar. New Dodgers ownership splurged for a star-studded roster and the highest payroll in baseball — a $230-million...

'The Way of the Knife' exposes America's shadow wars

2013-05-03 08:00:00

In October 2002, Barack Obama, then an obscure state senator in Illinois, stood in Federal Plaza in Chicago and gave a speech about Iraq that launched his career toward the White House. "I don't oppose all wars," Obama told the crowd. "What I am opposed...

PASSINGS: Bebo Valdes, Harlon Hill

2013-03-26 00:00:00

Bebo Valdes Pianist and bandleader who fled Cuba Bebo Valdes, 94, a renowned Cuban pianist who recorded with Nat King Cole, was bandleader of Havana's Tropicana nightclub during its glittering heyday and was considered the last luminary from the...

Fidel Castro urges North Korea to avoid nuclear warfare

2013-04-05 12:54:00

Former Cuban President Fidel Castro urged North Korea to steer clear of atomic warfare, saying Koreans faced “one of the most grave risks of nuclear war” since the Cuban missile crisis half a century ago. North Korea has stepped up its...

Inquiry finds Indonesia military unit was behind prison killings

2013-04-05 13:51:00

Eleven members of an elite Indonesian military unit were behind the slayings of four detainees at the Cebongan prison last month, military investigators told reporters this week. Brig. Gen. Unggul K. Yudhoyono said the prison killings were a revenge...

Tiempo Libre's Cuban musical fusions at Broad Stage on Saturday

2013-03-21 07:53:00

Increasingly, the Cuban-emigre, Miami-based band Tiempo Libre's name is starting to sound like a serious misnomer. After all, when exactly is this workaholic septet supposed to have "free time," given its steady output of CDs spotlighting the group's...

Political calculus keeps Cuba on U.S. list of terror sponsors

2013-05-03 05:00:00

Cuba’s communist leadership was quick to send condolences to the victims of the Boston Marathon bombings and to reiterate to Washington that it “rejects and condemns unequivocally all acts of terrorism.” Once a key supplier of arms and...

Letters: Two sides on Hugo Chavez

2013-03-12 00:00:00

Re "Leaders join Chavez mourners," March 9 There is an egregious double standard practiced in the recounting of the death last week of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. He is portrayed as a Latin American Robin Hood, while his subversion of human rights...

Venezuela's Hugo Chavez in his heyday: A look at 'el comandante'

2013-03-09 07:31:00

At midnight, Hugo Chavez and his entourage swept into the hotel lobby, transforming the drab venue in chilly, high-altitude La Paz into a sizzling vortex of tropical verve and chavista vigor. “Musicos!” the Venezuelan president declared upon...

El l�der de los rebeldes, Fidel Castro, es saludado por una multitud en un pueblo en su marcha victoriosa hacia La Habana.

2013-06-17 00:00:00

Fotograf�a tomada en 1958 durante la guerrilla liderada por Fidel Castro contra el dictador cubano Fulgencio Batista. Abajo, Ra�l Castro es visto junto a Ernesto �Che� Guevara y otros miembros de la guerrilla.

2013-06-17 00:00:00

Rebel leader Fidel Castro is cheered by a village crowd on his victorious march to Havana.

2013-06-16 21:54:00