Basic Search | Advanced Search | Browse | About This database includes speeches, interviews, etc., by Fidel Castro from 1959 to 1996. All texts are in English. If you would like more recent speeches or texts in Spanish, please consult Discursos e Intervenciones de Fidel Castro, which has texts in a variety of languages starting with 1998, or Discursos: Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores. Please see below for more about the Castro Speech Data Base. You may search the Castro Speech Da ...

"My sword and my last breath are at the service of Cuba." Lt. General Antonio Maceo, Cuban Liberation Army (1895-1898) Welcome to the Cuban Armed Forces Review (CAFR). The Review is a central information resource of Cuba's armed forces on the Internet. The study of Cuba's armed forces merits focus since the Revolutionary Armed Forces (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias, FAR) are a key political actor in present day Cuba and will take center stage in an eventual post-Castro Cuba. Th ...

RAUL'S BIRTHDAY PUTS SPOTLIGHT ON CUBA AFTER FIDEL Photo: Prensa Latina [Financial Times - 6/3/06] Raúl Castro, younger brother of Fidel and Cuba's defence minister, turns 75 tomorrow, still marching in step with his famous sibling whose back he has watched and whose decisions he has shared since they took power in the 1959 revolution. As head of the military and security apparatus, Raúl is the second most powerful man in Cuba. He runs much of the day-to-day affairs of the ruling C ...