The infamous paramilitary assault remains a cautionary Cold War history. Sixty-five long years after the Kennedy White House launched a CIA-led paramilitary invasion at the Bahia de Cochinos, the ...
The Bay of Pigs Invasion, as most folks call it now, was an embarrassing defeat for Kennedy and the United States. It showed the CIA was in over their heads. They got too cocky and miscalculated. And ...
One of the great U.S. foreign policy fiascos shows that presidents sometimes ignore the advice to hope for the best but prepare for the worst. Brigade 2506 landing craft at the Bay of Pigs after ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Eduardo Zayas Bazán was one of the first members of Brigade 2506 to open fire when he landed on a southern Cuba beach on April 17, ...
Eduardo Zayas Bazán was one of the first members of Brigade 2506 to open fire when he landed on a southern Cuba beach on April 17, 1961. He was 25 and part of a group of determined Cuban exiles intent ...