Fidel Castro

Salon Who is the CIA allowed to kill?

Cheney's secret assassination program may be terminated, but the U.S. is already carrying out "targeted killings"
By Mark Benjamin Jul 17, 2009

  • Revolution in shades of gray

    Steven Soderbergh talks about his maddening, messy near-masterpiece "Che," an aloof and ambiguous portrait of the much-loved, much-hated Marxist icon.
    By Andrew O'Hehir December 12, 2008

  • One more good reason to lift the embargo on Cuba

    Let's seize the potential of the nation's sugar-based ethanol -- before China beats us to it.
    By Joe Conason July 18, 2008

  • Can a Cuban Democrat win in South Florida?

    Real change in our hard-line Cuba policy may depend more on who's in Congress than who wins the White House. Suddenly, Miami's three Cuban Republicans look beatable.
    By Kirk Nielsen February 21, 2008

  • The Castro effect

    Will Fidel Castro's resignation affect this year's presidential election?
    By Alex Koppelman February 20, 2008

  • Castro, Miami and the U.S. election

    Alex Koppelman on Cuba's effect on American politics.
    February 20, 2008

  • From inside Cuba, a young Cuban blogs Castro's exit

    Yoani Sanchez, the voice of "Generación Y," uses the precious commodity of Internet access to describe her emotions at the "the unnamed one's" resignation.
    February 20, 2008

  • Fidel Castro steps down

    The communist dictator had ruled Cuba since 1959.
    By Alex Koppelman February 19, 2008

  • The coddled "terrorists" of South Florida

    Anti-Castro Cuban exiles who have been linked to bombings and assassinations are living free in Miami. Does the U.S. government have a double standard when it comes to terror?
    By Tristram Korten and Kirk Nielsen January 14, 2008

  • Earth first, says Osama bin Castro

    The jihadi and the socialist agree: George Bush's policy on climate change is messed up.
    By Andrew Leonard September 11, 2007

  • Giuliani's dangerous bluster

    Reading Giuliani's pompous foreign policy rhetoric and imagining he might somehow become president induces a deep sense of gloom.
    By Joe Conason August 17, 2007

  • Ginning up a fight between Clinton and Obama

    There's little difference between their stances on foreign policy -- just telling differences in style.
    By Joe Conason July 27, 2007

  • "Brothers"

    The exclusive story of Robert F. Kennedy's secret search for the truth about John F. Kennedy's assassination. From the new book by Salon's founder and former editor in chief.
    By David Talbot May 2, 2007

  • Faithful to Fidel

    Venezuela's Hugo Chavez has the wallet and the will to keep Cuban socialism running after his friend and role model dies.
    By Alexandra Starr August 8, 2006

  • To the lifeboats

    A new generation of socialists is waiting to take the reins in Cuba, and the Coast Guard should brace for heavy traffic in the Florida Straits.
    By Maria Cristina Garcia August 2, 2006

  • After Fidel, no deluge

    Alfredo Duran, Bay of Pigs soldier turned voice of moderation, says Miami's angry old guard of Cuban exiles won't like what follows Castro.
    By Mark Schone August 2, 2006

  • Destination: Havana

    Santeria, drinking, baseball and struggle -- glimpse Habanero life with work from G. Cabrera Infante, Ada Ferrer and the late, brave Reinaldo Arenas.
    By Tony D'Souza June 15, 2006

  • The mafia, the coup and the murder

    The authors respond to David Talbot's review of "Ultimate Sacrifice."
    By Lamar Waldron with Thom Hartmann December 7, 2005

  • Case closed?

    A new book about the JFK assassination claims to finally solve the mystery.
    By David Talbot December 1, 2005

  • Whose country is it, anyway?

    A Cuban journalist questions the effectiveness of new U.S. measures aimed at regime change in the island nation -- and says they will merely result in more imprisonment of dissidents.
    By Miriam Leiva May 24, 2004

  • Fidel, the fall guy

    An article in the Atlantic rashly speculates that Fidel Castro was behind the assassination of JFK -- and ignores the allegations that the Mafia, the military and the CIA were involved.
    By James K. Galbraith May 4, 2004

  • The man who solved the Kennedy assassination

    It wasn't Earl Warren -- or Oliver Stone. His name is G. Robert Blakey.
    By David Talbot November 22, 2003

  • The Fix

    Jay Leno and Katie Couric pull a switcheroo, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein sell it all, and Tony and Carmela are immortalized by Furio. Plus: Do you know who won all the marbles?
    By Karen Croft April 18, 2003

  • The Fix

    Madonna likes sex, Colin Farrell likes Sean's wife, Oliver likes Castro too much and Cage likes his comic books more than he likes Lisa Marie!
    By Karen Croft April 17, 2003

  • The Fix

    Jack Nicholson talks about his LSD trip with Cary Grant, Sharon Bush talks to Kitty Kelley, and Tony Blair talks to Homer Simpson! Plus: Can Paula fill Connie's Jimmy Choos?
    By Karen Croft April 16, 2003
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