The other Bay of Pigs story

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American Thinker:

April 17, 2016

The other Bay of Pigs story

By Silvio Canto, Jr.

Fifty-five years ago, my parents and lots of other Cubans woke up to "la invasion," or the invasion that most of us expected and were ready for. There were groups in Cuba who had been fighting Castro, from sabotage to confronting the regime block by block.

This is about The Bay of Pigs, an event that most people have forgotten unless you're a Cuban of my parents generation or someone like them who was impacted by it.

 

The plans for the invasion were passed on to new president Kennedy by the outgoing Eisenhower administration.

 

The men who invaded Cuba were primarily refugees trained by the CIA in Nicaragua. They adopted the name of Brigade 2506 in honor of a member killed accidentally during training exercises. The veterans of the brigade have a museum in Miami, a reminder to the young about the men who were willing to fight and remove communism from the island.