Most Americans probably know the sinking of the USS Maine in 1898 in Havana Harbor led to the Spanish-American War and helped liberate Cuba from Spain. But do they know that Cuban silver funded the ...

Analysis: When revolution swept Cuba in autumn 1868, Fenian leaders developed an intense interest in the island. By Pádraig Fhia Ó Mathúna, Queen's University Belfast. Increase ...

Decades ago, Ada Ferrer learned a lesson about what she’d later call the “misencounter between the history I was reading and the history of the people in my life.” During the late 1980s, while ...

The son of a wealthy landowner, Fidel Castro turned his back on a life of privilege to lead a left-wing revolution in Cuba that endured for decades and was shaped by his political cunning, keen sense ...

Early on in her masterful book Cuba: An American History, Ada Ferrer alludes to a double meaning embedded in her subtitle: “History in the first sense refers to what happened; in the second, to what ...

If anyone mentions Cuba's Barrio Chino or the history of Chinese Cubans, it's usually in reference to culinary traditions that were brought to places like Miami and New York City after the Cuban ...

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The Trump administration is serious about overthrowing the Cuban government and its political economic structure. What can be done to stop it? On Mayday, 2026, Trump signed an executive order ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. HAVANA — Nestled in his bedroom studio under vinyl records and a cluster of microphones, DJ Milano makes electronic music that ...