Created by: David Bauer, Leonardo Garcia, Zane Sheetz, and Patryck Stanley
Featured Role of Castro
Cuba / 1959
On January 1, 1959, a young Cuban nationalist named Fidel Castro (1926-) drove his guerrilla army into Havana and overthrew General Fulgencio Batista (1901-1973), the nation’s American-backed president. For the next two years, officials at the U.S. State Department and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) attempted to push Castro from power. The invaders were badly outnumbered by Castro’s troops, and they surrendered after less than 24 hours of fighting. The Bay of Pigs invasion begins when a CIA-financed and -trained group of Cuban refugees lands in Cuba and attempts to topple the communist government of Fidel Castro. The attack was an utter failure.
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I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement, but we do not have to say that we are anticommunists just to fawn on foreign powers.” |