Mexico and Cuba share a history as Spanish colonies, but their relationship with one another has had its ups and downs ...

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 -- ...

Author Lisandro Pérez knows Cuba’s long history: a Spanish colony, the British occupation, wars of independence, U.S. military occupation, the Batista dictatorship and the Castro revolution. In his ...

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 ...

From quiet valleys to colonial ports, Cuba's sugar past reveals itself in surprising ways to anyone willing to look beyond ...

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 ...

For centuries, Cuba was one of the world’s great sugar producers, with a long history of enslavement and exploitation of those who worked on the plantations. But sugar workers learned how to organize ...

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 ...