News about Fidel Castro

In a statement to the court, Victor Manuel Rocha has said that it was his time at Yale University that radicalized him into working for the communist state for decades. His activities came to light after an undercover sting operation where he detailed his clandestine activities for Havana and praised Fidel Castro.

Victor Manuel Rocha, 73, was arrested in December in Miami and accused of gathering intelligence for the rogue communist state since 1981. This came to light after an undercover sting operation where he detailed his clandestine activities for Havana and praised Fidel Castro Rocha bragged to an FBI agent posing as a Cuban intelligence officer that the U.S. was 'the enemy' and described his decades-long assignment as a 'grand slam' that 'strengthened the revolution'. Judge Beth Bloom told Rocha on Friday: 'You turned your back on this country over and over again,' and said she would impose 'the maximum penalty permitted by law,' after a three-and-a-half-hour hearing in Miami.

Marilyn Monroe looked like Shirley Temple once more,' said the HUMPHREY Bogart, who made everybody from mogul Howard Hughes to tyrant Fidel Castro commotion with zeal and lust. But when Gina 'La Lollobrigida's life came to an end, her reminiscences were not what you'd expect from a Hollywood icon and sex symbol, but rather from a woman who looked back with regret. Although Gina confessed to a youth addiction, we now know that her last one robbed her blind. Andrea Piazzolla, 36, was sentenced to three years in jail for stealing millions from the actress before her death last year. "I did everything wrong," her son Milko says in his first, personal interview about his mother's death.'

Victor Manuel Rocha, 73, was arrested in December for what US officials described as "one of the highest-reaching and longest-lasting infiltrations of the US government by a foreign agent." Two weeks ago, Rocha pleaded not guilty of plotting to act as an agent of a foreign government, but he told Judge Beth Bloom at a pre-trial hearing on Thursday that he wanted to change his plea.

Sir Keir Starmer's landslide victory in Rochdale last night, which was another major change in his career. He is back in the big time after 18 years to the day, when he embraced Sir Jimmy Savile and embarrassed himself as he licked pretend milk out of actress Rula Lenska's hand. As the conflict between Israel and Hamas rages, Mr Galloway has won one of the most tumultuous by-elections in recent times by mainly attacking Muslim voters and being pro-Palestine. His only real goals seemed to be to return a maternity hospital and a Primark. Rochdale is the seventh parliamentary victory for the constituency-hopping politician. He has been married four times and had six children in those four decades. A king of choosing sides, often with a lot of controversies, is more likely to support President Putin's Russia and the Ayatollahs' Iran than those leading Britain. When Sergei Skripal was poisoned with Novichok in Salisbury, Galloway, Galloway, went on television to say that Russia should be on the 'bottom of the list' of suspects. He has worked for Labour, Independent Labour, Respect, and now the Workers Party of the United Kingdom, whose campaign literature has proclaimed that the fedora-hatted firebrand was a mentor to Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez, and Yasser Arafat. Galloway's tour to Iraq's murderous tyrant Saddam Hussein in the 1990s sparked a lot of people, but he never claimed that his remarks were directed to the Iraqi civilians. And though Hussein and the rest of his comrades are dead, Galloway is still alive and kicking. 'George is important again,' one supporter said today.'

Pauline Boty never rose to the fame of contemporaries such as David Hockney and Peter Blake due to her death from cancer at the age of 28 in 1966. Now, a new exhibition is bringing the radical artist's life and work to the public eye. Pauline Boty: A Portrait, which is on display at the Gazelli Art House in west London, is showing several of her paintings, including one that honors Cuba's Fidel Castro's ascension to the communist regime.

Images of big cigars, classic American cars, revolution, rum, and Fidel Castro are among Cuba's favorites. Coffee is one of the Caribbean island's less well known beverages. Coffee growing has fallen since US President John F Kennedy instituted an economic recession on Castro's pro-Soviet government in early 1962, but there are hopes of a revival. The Lavazza agreement is part of a larger scheme to jumpstart the Cuban coffee industry, which has virtually disappeared under the embargo. At its high point in the 1950s, the plant was producing 50,000 tonnes a year. The most recent annual production figure is just over 8,000 tonnes.

Juanita Castro, Fidel Castro's younger sister, died at the age of 90, more than 60 years after she disappeared from her homeland. Juanita, who was left on the left at an anti-Castro march in New York City in 1979, often spoke out against her brother's brutal Cuban dictatorship. She is an extraordinary woman with no more than a name: a woman who sacrificed all for her ideals.' Maria Antonieta Collins, her biographer, said, she leaves extraordinary lessons.

Manuel Rocha, 73, was arrested in Miami on Friday following an extensive FBI investigation, and the Justice Department reported Monday that he had been charged with serving as a fugitive since at least 1981. Rocha is accused of "clandestine conduct," according to newly unsealed court papers, including meeting with Cuban intelligence agents and giving inaccurate information about his travels and contacts to US government officials.

ALISON BOSHOFF: James Franco (left), 45, is currently in Naples, where filming of Fidel Castro's (right) illegitimate daughter Alina Fernandez is imminent. As this picture shows, Franco seems to be gearing up for the role of the revolutionary communist: growing an untidy beard and broadening his frame. It's certainly a change of image from previous appearances, which also included appearances of late Hollywood heartthrob James Dean. Franco of California is of Portuguese and Swedish descent, and his mother has Russian Jewish roots. Franco's demeanor, according to producer John Martinez O'Felan of Mankind Entertainment, makes him the perfect match to play Castro, whose father is Spanish-born.

According to The Wall Street Journal, China and Cuba have signed a clandestine deal to establish the base, quoting authorities "with highly classified intelligence." According to the paper, Beijing had promised to pay cash-strapped Cuba several billions of dollars to allow it to expand the plant, and that, at this time, an agreement had been reached 'in principle.' Such a facility would enable China to control the south of the United States, home to several military bases, as well as ship traffic in the area. Washington faces a new geopolitical challenge as it battles with China's increasing global prominence.

They are one of Europe's most recognisable women, and they add a touch of glamour to the Royal families. But not all of them were born in the lands they now govern. Princess Charlene of Monaco was born in southern Africa, for example. Princess Michael of Kent is a Czech and German immigrant. The Mail's latest Royal's column examines the somewhat surprising origins of Europe's Queens and Princesses, as well as the long distance they have traveled to be where they are today.

Following Cuba's loss to the United States in Miami at the World Baseball Classic on Sunday, the bullpen catcher for Cuba's national baseball team has departed to the United States. According to reporter Yordano Carmona, Iván Prieto escaped from Team Cuba's hotel before the players' return flight to Havana, becoming the first Cuban player to defect during a WBC. Prieto was regarded as a "deserter," according to Team Cuba.' The tournament's chiefs did not respond immediately to DailyMail.com's request for comment. On Sunday night, Cuba defeated the United States squad in the WBC semi-finals, where many Cuban-American demonstrators took aim at the communist regime.

In more ways than one, the WBC match between Cuba and the United States has gripped the city of Miami. Although many people gathered to the ballpark for the game, some of the countries competing stayed outside demonstrating against one of the countries involved. Hundreds of protesters gathered in front of about 15 police officers with signs condemning Cuba's communist government and the political prisoners being detained on the island. Protesters surrounded the park, waving flags, wearing shirts with slogans, and holding signs outside the loanDepot Park in Miami's Little Havana neighborhood, a pillar of Cuban history and the home of the Miami Marlins.

Ana Belen Montes, 65, (left, bottom right) was released from FMC Carswell in Fort Worth, Texas, on Friday, according to a Federal Bureau of Prisoners spokesperson, who confirmed it. In 2002, she pleaded guilty to using her senior position at the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) to leak intelligence to Havana, including the identities of four US classified agents and details on how to deceive Cuban weapons. Montes was sentenced to 25 years in jail for good conduct leading to her early release, and she will be subjected to an additional five years of post-release surveillance.

Barbara Walters was a pioneer in American broadcast journalism long before she died on December 30 at the age of 93. Walters said in a 2014 address to Harvard University that the journalist's most important attribute was curiosity. Throughout her career, she demonstrated this skill, especially when she interviewed the day's most popular newsmakers. In 1999, Monica Lewinsky's interview with Bill Clinton smashed TV ratings for a news special, prompting him to apologize to Hillary. Years before, she was one of the first journalists to bring Donald Trump to justice for mistaking his credentials in real estate. Walters' interviews were not conducted in an air conditioned studio; in 1977, she spent ten days in the mountains of Cuba interviewing Fidel Castro, gaining his respect to the point that many suspected there were an affair when they weren't.

Barbara Walters died on Friday at the age of 93, but her brilliance and tenacity in many of her historic interviews will live on. The legendary journalist spoke with an impressive array of entertainment industry actors and global figures in her career, which dates back to the 1950s. Walters was able to get to the bottom of the interview questions, including Oprah Winfrey, who was on the other end of the questions, including Oprah Winfrey, and she conducted extensive interviews with major figures such as Fidel Castro and the Shah of Iran.

Despite being carefully staged by the Kremlin's propagandists, signs that Putin, 70, is suffering from health issues have been apparent on numerous occasions this year. In the latest example, a puffy-faced Putin is seen smiling gingerly as he speaks with D.Canel in front of a marble fireplace in Moscow. As if to try and calm himself, his left hand is seen closely around the arm of the white chair he is seated in. Putin's right hand is seen fiddling with something, and he taps his feet and shuffles them across the flowery carpet. Putin appeared in another meeting on Wednesday, this time with Dmitry Mazepin, Chairman of Uralchem Group, a Russian manufacturer. The pair sat opposite each other across a large wooden table, which Putin has often used to hold meetings.

Max Hastings' superb reconstruction of the Cuban Missile Crisis reads like a thriller as the thrilling drama of Cold War power politics unfolds behind closed doors in Washington, Moscow, and Havana. President John Kennedy and his advisors were in almost continuous session in the White House when the Americans first detected missiles carrying nuclear warheads on the ground in Cuba.

EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: I'm afraid to reveal that King Juan Carlos de Madrid has begged The Real Marigold Hotel actor to save his name and fortune by assisting him in a London court. The king intends that the broadcaster, who is 71, give him a character reference in London's High Court, where he is being sued for damages caused by his former mistress, German socialite Corinna to Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn, 58.

Billy Eichner, Variety's current front page actor, has defended his decision to have an all-queer cast even for straight roles in his gay rom com Bros. The decision came out of a 43-year-old's dissatisfaction with the number of meaty film roles, including gay ones that had gone to straight actors in the past. 'It's not about saying that a straight actor should never play gay,' he told Variety. We still need a more equal playing field,' but we do need a more balanced playing field.' It's about repairing a very bad situation.'

After being caught on television in September discussing the flag with Project Veritas, a far-right media group, parents at Inderkum High School in Sacramento had called on the district to dismiss AP Government teacher Gabriel Gipe. I have an Antifa flag on my [classroom] wall, and a student blasted it because it made him feel uncomfortable.' Well, this [Antifa flag] is supposed to make fascists feel uncomfortable, so if you feel uncomfortable, I don't know what to say,' Gipe said. I have 180 days to turn [students] into rebels.' He was on unpaid leave at the time, and the school district was supposed to discipline him for "clear breaches of political conduct."