Cuba Remembers Bay of Pigs Failure
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- 04 / 18 / 2009
After supporting conspiracies, aerial provocations, sabotage, diplomatic maneuvers and radical economic measures, the government of John F. Kennedy and the CIA ordered the invasion through Playa Giron (Bay of Pigs).
Then, B-26 bombers disguised as the Cuban Air Force raided two airbases and one civil airport on April 15.
At the burial of the victims, Fidel Castro told the world that Cuba would fight against an imminent invasion, to defend a legitimate right to build a homeland of social justice.
With that, he had proclaimed the Cuban Revolution Socialist.
On April 17, 1961, at 01:30 am the mercenary invasion of the 2506 Brigade began. It included heavily armed amphibious units with tanks, armored vehicles, cannons, mortar and support by 30 bomber planes.
The Cuban troops were made up of combatants from the Ejercito Rebelde and National Revolutionary Police, but mostly by voluntary national guardspeople, then with little or no military experience.
On the very night of April 17th four ships and five enemy bombers were destroyed.
Those who landed could see for themselves that "Patria o Muerte" (Give Me Homeland or Death) was not a mere slogan.
The patriotic forces relentlessly charged against the 2506 assault Brigade until it surrendered on the sands of Playa Giron in barely 64 hours.
(ACN)
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