Disputes over national anthems and flags often reflect deeper political tensions.

If the Ministry of Agriculture granted 100 pesos of credit for each fruitless plan, measure, resolution, order, strategy, law ...

Claims that Fidel Castro and Margaret Trudeau had an affair that produced the current Canadian prime minister are implausible ...

On 26 September 1960, Fidel Castro of Cuba remained on the rostrum for 269 minutes, making his address the longest timed speech in General Assembly history. Delivered just one year after the Cuban ...

It’s the busiest and probably most high-profile week at UN Headquarters in New York, where leaders from across the world come ...

Fidel Castro was the most popular dictator in the free and democratic world. Stalin lost his luster after the Secret Speech in 1956. Mao lost his luster, or some of it, in the wake of honest ...

Fidel Castro was every word in the book ... and Castro’s anti-American speeches and alliances with the island’s leftists were less than appreciated around Washington, where he was refused ...

William Leogrande, professor: I think Cuban history is very much alive for Fidel Castro. He almost never gives a speech without making reference to earlier struggles. From the very beginning ...

Every September world leaders travel to New York to address the start of the annual United Nations General Assembly ...

New York plays host to the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) for its 79th annual session. The opening ceremonies kick ...

Editor's note: Fidel Castro, the former Cuban president who ... Cubans had no political self-determination and no freedom of speech, and few were allowed to travel abroad. But they did have ...