And very few rulers are so indifferent to the well being of their peoples as Fidel Castro is. This was dramatically shown at the time of the Missile Crisis in 1962 when Fidel tried to get the ...

For us, war was unthinkable. We ended up getting what we’d wanted all along: security for Fidel Castro’s regime and American missiles removed from Turkey.” Crucial to the peaceful resolution ...

Fidel Castro's life story is not the story ... The Soviets proposed a different defense -- medium-range ballistic missiles. Castro agreed. When in October 1962 American U-2 spy planes ...

Mexico City — Fidel Castro was a remarkably lucky dictator ... own people and instead died in bed at age 90. During the Cuban missile crisis, he wrung a secret promise from the U.S. that ...

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On April 17, 1961, some 1,400 CIA-trained ...

This would influence some of the decisions he took in dealing with the Cuban Missile Crisis. Narrator: In 1959, Fidel Castro overthrew a corrupt right-wing dictatorship, and took power in Cuba.

Fidel Castro took control of Cuba. Political and economic tension rose between Cuba and the USA. Castro ordered that American-owned businesses on Cuba would be taken over. The US Government ...

Nothing caught global attention and heightened tensions as did the Cuban Missile Crisis. The new young President John F. Kennedy faced off with the Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro and the ...

At the height of the Cold War, on 1 January 1959, a guerrilla army led by Fidel Castro defeated the US-backed ... that culminated in the 1962 missile crisis and the day the world came close ...