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The initial months of John F. Kennedy’s presidency were marked by a singular, disastrous incident that would influence the course of the Cold War and American foreign policy for the …
Kennedy’s Admission of Responsibility the Bay of Pigs Invasion Read More
The victory at Playa Girón (Bay of Pigs) on April 19, 1961, after defeating the mercenary invasion financed and militarily supported by the US government and the CIA, shows the …
The Victory of the Bay of Pigs, forever and ever Read More
The Liberation War in Cuba concluded on January 1, 1959 with the overthrow of the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista and the establishment of a revolutionary government headed by Prime Minister …
The conception of the invasion of the Bay of Pigs in Cuba Read More
In the early months of 1961, the geopolitical landscape of the Americas was marked by intense tensions and covert operations, emblematic of the broader Cold War struggle between the United …
Bay of Pigs under an invasion Read More
In April 1961, a brief phrase in Spanish captures a moment that still resonates in regional memory: B-26 bombers, with American support and carrying fake Cuban insignia, took off from …
Bombing of airports in Cuba prior to the invasion of Bay of Pigs Read More
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