HAVANA -- He fled Cuba in 1961, but still calls Fidel Castro his friend. He cannot stand communism, but bitterly opposes the U.S. embargo. He lives in Miami, but travels regularly to Havana, even ...

Since Fidel Castro stepped down as President of Cuba in February, there’s been speculation that relations between America and the island country might change. But the truth is many Cuban-Americans ...

The Miami-based headquarters of the Alianza Martiana group, whose members have close ties to the Cuban government, was vandalized early Monday morning, according to Miami Police and Max Lesnik, ...

MIAMI (Reuters) - He helped his friend Fidel Castro seize power in Cuba on January 1, 1959, and half a century later Max Lesnik is still fighting. Lesnik ran a rebel propaganda network and served as a ...

MIAMI — Longtime Cuban exile Max Lesnik last saw his former revolutionary comrade Fidel Castro about four years ago at the University of Havana, where they became pals as students in the 1940s. At ...

On this Friday in late November, Max Lesnik arrives at his storefront shortly before 8:00 p.m. From the outside the West Little Havana location appears to be just a simple tienda peddling cheap ...

Growing up, Vivien Lesnik Weisman found her father a bit of an enigma. To understand Max Lesnik, the filmmaker traveled to Cuba to helm The Man of Two Havanas, a memoir of her father’s turbulent ...

The best documentary at this year’s Florida Film Festival is also the most Florida-centric. Vivien Lesnik Weisman’s Man of Two Havanas is framed as a personal essay on coming to understand her father, ...

Vivien Lesnik Weisman counted herself among that rare breed -- a Cuban American not interested in politics -- when she started to make a documentary about her father, a quixotic revolutionary-in-exile ...

The U.S.-Cuba impasse may derive from the personal squabbles of a few families, according to documaker Vivien Lesnik Weisman in her spunky and pointed "The Man of Two Havanas." The U.S.-Cuba impasse ...