The disaster at the Bay of pigs

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April 1961. In the night a group of divers landed on the beach of the Bay of pigs. Soon would start reporting operations to ships unloading locations. Landing that would count 1.453 men Cuban exiles with l”aim of dueling with the ordinary Cuban militia and persuade the people to overthrow the Government of’ Havana. A Communist Government led by Fidel Castro. A truck at the somozzatori reconnaissance mistook for fishermen and did not intervene. The divers have frightened the Government generally explode of gunfire and triggered the tussle. He had immediately beginning the landing. Filoamericane trovarano troops waiting for the Cuban army. They fell to the ground more than 250 people its two fronts. All others were arrested. The landing was a tragic epilogue. Khrushchev President of the USSR the following day threatened the intervention of the army the Cia directed by Allen Dulles had prepared a plan already since the Eisenhower administration. Kennedy inherited and endorse reluctantly, so much so that he did not want to include the u.s. Army in operation. The result was one of the most disastrous and embarrassing militaristic operations in the Americas. Worsened the gap between Washington and Moscow and prepared the ground for the Cuban missile crisis the following year.

Hector Parker

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