Cuba rebels, army battle for key city. HAVANA, Dec. 30, 1958 (UPI) - A life or death struggle for the central Cuban city of Santa Clara raged today.

Cuban revolutionaries invaded their island homeland by air and sea today and clashed with Fidel Castro's forces in a violent waterfront battle just 90 miles from Havana.

In the week that was supposed to open Fidel Castro's battle for Cuba, his ragged rebel army showed clearly enough what it could and could not do against the well-armed troops of Dictator ...

Page was the last Colonel of the regular army left in Cuba. All of the others who came originally have either been killed in battle or have died of sickness, but there are any number of Lieutenant ...

Fulgencio Batista y Zaldivar, a chubby man of 56, last week commemorated the day 24 years ago when, as a lowly army sergeant, he threw out a bumbling government and began his long career as off ...

Elián González made headlines in 1999 as the boy found floating on an inner tube near Florida shores and became the center of an international custody battle between the U.S. and Cuba.