Fidel Castro

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  • Grumpy old men

    The aging exile leaders who are trying to keep Elian Gonzalez in the United States have a lot in common with their anti-democratic nemesis, Fidel Castro.
  • Bracing for Hurricane Elian

    Miami's Cuban-American community prepares for war against hometown girl Janet Reno.
  • Why Elian should stay in the U.S.

    Growing up as "state property" in the Soviet Union convinced me that freedom is as crucial as a father's love.
  • Should he stay or should he go?

    Miami exiles and Havana dissidents split on Elian Gonzalez and the future of Cuba.
  • Viva la evolución

    From Havana to Santiago, Cuba steps into the next millennium with hope for a new kind of revolution.
  • Junker

    Our rental car wheezed through Cuba at the millennium. A new century on the horizon, Fidel's nation gathered up its last one right beneath our wheels.
  • Green medicine

    How Cuba is integrating natural remedies into its public health care.
  • Elián González and the future of Cuba

    As Havana waits for Castro's demise, even his enemies are appalled by the way Miami's Cuban exiles have used the motherless boy for their own political ends.
  • Indiana Dan vs. Dr. Evil

    The congressman trying to prevent Elian Gonzalez's return to Cuba, Rep. Dan Burton, gets more campaign funding from Florida's Cuban exile community than from his own folks back home in Hoosierland.
  • Adios to all that

    Old passions run high over the fate of a little boy, but both Cubans and the exile community are ready to embrace a new future -- together.
  • Take-home test

    Gov. Bush says he has been reading a biography of former Secretary of State Dean Acheson. Here's a reading comprehension exam for the GOP front-runner.
  • Adrift in America

    Elian Gonzalez isn't an anti-Castro poster child; he's a child who needs his father's love.
  • What would our century be without Baba Wawa?

    Barbara Walters' photo of the century features -- Barbara Walters!
  • Blue Glow

    Salon's TV picks for Monday, Oct. 11, 1999
  • Let it be me

    Wherein the author travels back in time to encounter "Morris" as he brushes up against "Reagan" -- and the rest is "history."
  • The Kevlar dictator

    Bullets can't touch him. He's impervious to poison. And bombs -- Ha! He laughs at your bombs!
  • Disloyalty of Democrats

    It's hardly a surprise that China was able to steal our nuclear secrets, given the kind of people the Democrats have put in charge.
  • Foul ball

    The State Department interferes with the second Cuba-Orioles game.
  • ¡Play beísbol!

    Baseball and Cuba -- two hidebound institutions needing reform -- get a public relations boost from an extra-innings game in the Havana sunshine.
  • Viva "Buena Vista Social Club"

    In spite of volatile Cuban-American exile politics, Wim Wenders' documentary 'Buena Vista Social Club' wins over Miami
  • Dictator of choice

    Looking back now, we can see that Pinochet was good for Chile, whereas another dictator, Castro, is bad for his country.
  • Newsreal: The odd couple

    The pope's upcoming visit to Cuba and meeting with Fidel Castro is being depicted as a sort of ideological shootout: believer vs. atheist, Catholic vs. Communist, Old World vs. New. But the reality is much more complex.
  • Newsreal: Bad company

    The reasons Nelson Mandela, who represents the triumph of democracy, embraces Moammar Gadhafi and other enemies of democracy.
  • Che and Diana: The Shocking Untold Story

    In a book proposal for his autobiography, Cuba's maximum leader Fidel Castro outs his brother, calls Robert Kennedy a "complete fool" and compares Che Guevara to Princess Diana.
  • The Awful Truth

    Halloween, our only real holiday.
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