Since that fatal event, the Cuban people have remained unfree. On New Year’s Day of 1958, Batista took his family, friends and bags of money on a plane and fled to the Dominican Republic.

But did you know that in 1958, Fangio was kidnapped? Cuban revolutionaries approached Fangio in his hotel ahead of the Havana Grand Prix, pointed a gun at his ribs, and forced Formula 1’s most ...

By 1958, the revolution had spread throughout Cuba, culminating in the fall of Havana in early 1959. Batista fled the country in 1959 and Castro formed a liberal nationalist government.

HAVANA, Cuba, Nov. 2--Cubans vote tomorrow for a new president and Congress amid a background of bloodshed and violence centered in eastern Cuba. Heavy balloting was expected despite rebel calls ...