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While the failed Bay of Pigs invasion in April 1961 dominates discussions about early U.S.-Cuba tensions, another covert operation—less known but equally significant—unfolded months earlier on Cuban soil. This was …
Plan A: Bay of Pigs Invasion, Plan B: Guantanamo Naval Base Operation Read More
Memories persist after 63 years. The aggressors continue to threaten to return, but they do not forget that in 72 hours we turned their blood fever into pure cowardice. In …
Bay of Pigs, the April victory Read More
It was 63 years ago today when the Cuban people suffered a hard blow as several of their children died in the bombing perpetrated on April 15, 1961 by U.S. …
U.S. planes bomb Cuban airports towards the Bay of Pigs Read More
In the early morning of April 17, 1961 a counterrevolutionary brigade, composed of 500 men, trained and transported by the US, arrived in the Zapata Swamp, south of Matanzas in …
Contramaestre also defended the homeland at the Bay of Pigs Read More