Havana - The aim was to overthrow by force the Cuban Revolution, but the operation failed in just 65 hours and became "the first major defeat of U.S. imperialism in Latin America" as described Fidel Castro. 50 years ago, on April 17, 1961, some 1,500 Cuban exiles trained and conducted by the CIA landed at Playa Girón, Bay of Pigs in south central Cuba.
His plan was to clear the way for the arrival from Miami a "provisional government" and it reclaimed from Cuba a U.S. military intervention. But such intervention never came. On April 19, Castro's troops had captured since the last mercenaries, who found a strong resistance to reach Cuba.
Far from achieving its purposes, the operation destroyed the myth of the invincibility of Washington, strengthened and brought Castro to Cuba even more to the Soviet Union, Cold War even tougher. The ruling Communist Party of Cuba has chosen the anniversary of the failed invasion to celebrate next weekend its sixth congress, the first in 14 years, which adopted new economic reforms to "update" and to "irrevocable" the socialist model force on the island.
Before the event, which provides that the President Raul Castro taking over from his brother Fidel as head of the Party, on Saturday morning hosting a popular big military parade in Havana that has been rehearsing for weeks. The Bay of Pigs invasion, an area which has now become a major beach resort, came just two years after the triumph of the revolution led by Castro, who toppled the regime of Fulgencio Batista on January 1, 1959.
Though initially was recognized by Washington, the Cuban government and its increasingly clear guidance communist soon began to worry the neighbors to the north, leading to a dangerous pulse. In May 1959, the Agrarian Reform Law of Castro led to the expropriation of large estates, many owned by U.S.
companies, which led the U.S. to reduce purchases of sugar, the main source of income for the island. The Soviet Union then entered the game as a purchaser of the remaining sugar and later as a supplier of oil, after Washington decided to cut off supplies to Cuba. To the government orders Dwight Eisenhower that U.S.
refineries in Cuba capital left to process Soviet oil, Castro expropriated the lands as well. Finally, in January 1961, the two countries cut diplomatic relations. Failing the measures of political pressure, covert Eisenhower devised strategies to overthrow Castro and gave the green light to the Bay of Pigs invasion, carried out by his successor, John F.
Kennedy. Just two days before the landing, April 15, United States with Cuban flags on the fuselage bombed three military airports of the island to reduce the Cuban air capabilities. 16, at the funeral of Cubans killed in the attack, Fidel Castro delivered a fiery speech in Havana in which first declared that their revolution is socialist.
"What the imperialists can not forgive is the dignity, integrity, courage, ideological firmness, the spirit of sacrifice and revolutionary spirit of the people of Cuba. That's what they can not forgive, we are there in their faces, and we have made a socialist revolution in the noses of the United States! "he said from a makeshift podium.
In the morning the next day, Cuban exiles trained in Guatemala arrived in the Bay of Pigs after several days sailing from Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua, sparking the fighting against the Cuban troops, already equipped with Soviet artillery. In the latest actions involved the same Castro. According to Cuban figures, the fallen by invasive amounted to 108, compared to 156 deaths among villagers and soldiers of the troops of Castro.
In December 1962, Cuba and the United States reached an agreement to exchange 1,113 prisoners for drugs and compotes for children worth $ 53 million. But tensions did not stop Pigs. Economic sanctions against Cuba continued even tougher to a total embargo, while Havana denounced sabotage and attacks.
However, Kennedy abandoned further plans to invade Cuba after detecting Soviet nuclear missiles on the island in October 1962. What followed was the worst crisis of the Cold War, which brought the world close to nuclear war. The so-called Missile Crisis ended after 13 days by an agreement between Washington and Moscow. 
His plan was to clear the way for the arrival from Miami a "provisional government" and it reclaimed from Cuba a U.S. military intervention. But such intervention never came. On April 19, Castro's troops had captured since the last mercenaries, who found a strong resistance to reach Cuba.
Far from achieving its purposes, the operation destroyed the myth of the invincibility of Washington, strengthened and brought Castro to Cuba even more to the Soviet Union, Cold War even tougher. The ruling Communist Party of Cuba has chosen the anniversary of the failed invasion to celebrate next weekend its sixth congress, the first in 14 years, which adopted new economic reforms to "update" and to "irrevocable" the socialist model force on the island.
Before the event, which provides that the President Raul Castro taking over from his brother Fidel as head of the Party, on Saturday morning hosting a popular big military parade in Havana that has been rehearsing for weeks. The Bay of Pigs invasion, an area which has now become a major beach resort, came just two years after the triumph of the revolution led by Castro, who toppled the regime of Fulgencio Batista on January 1, 1959.
Though initially was recognized by Washington, the Cuban government and its increasingly clear guidance communist soon began to worry the neighbors to the north, leading to a dangerous pulse. In May 1959, the Agrarian Reform Law of Castro led to the expropriation of large estates, many owned by U.S.
companies, which led the U.S. to reduce purchases of sugar, the main source of income for the island. The Soviet Union then entered the game as a purchaser of the remaining sugar and later as a supplier of oil, after Washington decided to cut off supplies to Cuba. To the government orders Dwight Eisenhower that U.S.
refineries in Cuba capital left to process Soviet oil, Castro expropriated the lands as well. Finally, in January 1961, the two countries cut diplomatic relations. Failing the measures of political pressure, covert Eisenhower devised strategies to overthrow Castro and gave the green light to the Bay of Pigs invasion, carried out by his successor, John F.
Kennedy. Just two days before the landing, April 15, United States with Cuban flags on the fuselage bombed three military airports of the island to reduce the Cuban air capabilities. 16, at the funeral of Cubans killed in the attack, Fidel Castro delivered a fiery speech in Havana in which first declared that their revolution is socialist.
"What the imperialists can not forgive is the dignity, integrity, courage, ideological firmness, the spirit of sacrifice and revolutionary spirit of the people of Cuba. That's what they can not forgive, we are there in their faces, and we have made a socialist revolution in the noses of the United States! "he said from a makeshift podium.
In the morning the next day, Cuban exiles trained in Guatemala arrived in the Bay of Pigs after several days sailing from Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua, sparking the fighting against the Cuban troops, already equipped with Soviet artillery. In the latest actions involved the same Castro. According to Cuban figures, the fallen by invasive amounted to 108, compared to 156 deaths among villagers and soldiers of the troops of Castro.
In December 1962, Cuba and the United States reached an agreement to exchange 1,113 prisoners for drugs and compotes for children worth $ 53 million. But tensions did not stop Pigs. Economic sanctions against Cuba continued even tougher to a total embargo, while Havana denounced sabotage and attacks.
However, Kennedy abandoned further plans to invade Cuba after detecting Soviet nuclear missiles on the island in October 1962. What followed was the worst crisis of the Cold War, which brought the world close to nuclear war. The so-called Missile Crisis ended after 13 days by an agreement between Washington and Moscow.
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