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The trial for the 1987 assassination of former leader of Burkina Faso Thomas Sankara, known as the "African Che Guevara", begins in Ouagadougou against 14 people, including former president Blaise Compaoré, who will be tried "in absentia".
2021-10-11

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel is officially named First Secretary of the Communist Party following the resignation of Raúl Castro. He is the first person not of the Castro family to hold the position since the 1959 Cuban Revolution.
2021-04-19

Argentine Education Minister Alejandro Finocchiaro, who strongly condemned a school in Chaco Province for displaying a Cuban flag and displaying pictures of Che Guevara, says the school "has no supervision" and that they are "indoctrinating children with communism and totalitarian and populist governments". He also added in an interview on state TV that the school will be reviewed.
2019-07-2

Argentina Education Minister Alejandro Finocchiaro strongly condemns a school in Chaco Province for displaying a Cuban flag on Argentina's Flag Day, asking, "What differences are there between the Cuban regime and the Nazis?" He also describes Che Guevara as a "criminal and genocider".
2019-06-27

Cuban president Raúl Castro prepares to step down as Miguel Díaz-Canel is elected as his successor. This marks the first time since the Cuban Revolution that the country is not led by a member of the Castro family.
2018-04-18

The President of the United States Barack Obama and the President of Cuba Raul Castro meet at the sidelines of the Summit of the Americas in Panama. This marks the first meeting of the leaders of the two countries since the Cuban Revolution.
2015-04-11

Cuba announces plans to cut up to half a million public sector jobs to revive the island's economy, in the biggest private sector shift since the 1959 revolution.
2010-09-13

As part of a lengthy interview with the Mexican newspaper "La Jornada", Fidel Castro admits responsibility for the persecution of homosexuals in Cuba after the revolution of 1959.
2010-08-31