A U.S.-developed video game that lets players try to kill Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro sparked an angry reaction from Cuba on Wednesday, the latest charge in the long history of bitter U.S.-Cuba ties. “What the United States government did not achieve in more than 50 years, it now tries to do virtually,” said a [...]
Mario Vargas Llosa is the recipient of the 2010 Nobel Prize for Literature, the Nobel Committee announced this morning from the Swedish Academy in Stockholm, Sweden. And he wasn’t on the lists of favorites. Since 1901, the Nobel Committee has honored outstanding individuals in the fields of science, peace and literature with a medal, personal [...]
The Swedish Academy wandered outside of its usual European base to select Peru’s Mario Vargas Llosa as the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature today, according to the official Nobel website. From the publication of his first novel, 1963′s The Time of the Hero, based on his experiences at a Peruvian military academy, Vargas [...]
A lively and healthy-looking Fidel Castro appealed to President Barack Obama to prevent a global nuclear war in an emphatic speech Saturday that marked his first official government appearance since emergency surgery four years ago. (Aug. 7)
Fidel Castro will attend a special session of parliament Saturday, his first appearance during official government proceedings, as well as in front of lawmakers, since falling seriously ill four years ago.