Cuba has always exported and trained soldiers for three main reasons: power, politics or payments.

Intro -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Prologue: There and Here -- Part I: Dispatches from The First America -- Chapter 1: Heaven and Hell -- Chapter 2: Key to the Indies -- Chapter 3: Copper Virgin -- ...

This post is in partnership with the History News Network, the website that puts the news into historical perspective. The article below was originally published at HNN. Cuba is about to change. As ...

The House On G Street is Lisandro Perez' newest book. The title refers to the house that his grandfather built in 1920 in Vedado, Havana Cuba. "I got a sense of belonging and a sense of family in that ...

TRINIDAD, Cuba -- For 56 years, Carlos Zerquera has preserved Trinidad's history with his only tools: a pen, a steady hand and the patience of a redwood tree. Working in a straight-backed chair at a ...

As Angola gained its independence, Cuba sent a military force to help its new government beat back a South African invasion. Cuba’s long-term role in Angola transformed the politics of Southern Africa ...