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. Castro was 31 when he arrived in 1958 at this ...

Juan Gonzalez loves Fidel Castro. But he is also a realist. "The people do what they can. They don't just sit around and wait for the government to give them everything," the 59-year-old said, standing on his dusty front porch. "If they waited for the government ...

Today is Thursday, Jan. 8th, the eighth day of 2009. There are 357 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Jan. 8, 1935, rock-and-roll legend Elvis Presley was born in Tupelo, Miss. On this date: In 1798, the Eleventh Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was declared in effect by President John Adams ...

In the palace of a fallen dictator, the grade-school kids in their red Communist Pioneer bandanas are getting their mandatory introduction to the glories of the revolution. Clattering from one display case to the next, they gaze wide-eyed at an antique gun ...