Cuba has always exported and trained soldiers for three main reasons: power, politics or payments.

When Joelle Hamontree took a trip to Cuba, she visited a local art studio where the artist shared the powerful history behind ...

Intro -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Prologue: There and Here -- Part I: Dispatches from The First America -- Chapter 1: Heaven and Hell -- Chapter 2: Key to the Indies -- Chapter 3: Copper Virgin -- ...

At the Museum of Cuban Art, historians will provide an overview of Cuban art and artists over the last four centuries in the museum’s impressive collection. Have lunch at one of Cuba’s top paladars.

Victor Manuel Rocha is the latest Cuban spy sentenced for his crimes, but he’s far from the first captured in the U.S. Since the early 1960s, the Cuban government has recruited dozens of agents or ...

The House On G Street is Lisandro Perez' newest book. The title refers to the house that his grandfather built in 1920 in Vedado, Havana Cuba. "I got a sense of belonging and a sense of family in that ...

TRINIDAD, Cuba -- For 56 years, Carlos Zerquera has preserved Trinidad's history with his only tools: a pen, a steady hand and the patience of a redwood tree. Working in a straight-backed chair at a ...

This post is in partnership with the History News Network, the website that puts the news into historical perspective. The article below was originally published at HNN. Cuba is about to change. As ...

The Cuban Peso (CUP) is Cuba's official currency, used for local transactions and historical purposes. Explore its history and place in Cuba's monetary system.