Why Cuba matters - Libre Online libreonline.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from libreonline.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
19 Apr 2021
Veterans of the 2506 Brigade, a group of Cuban exiles and American citizens whom President John F. Kennedy abandoned in the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion, observed the 60th anniversary of the failed liberation operation this weekend.
The operation began on April 17, 1961, concluding on April 19 with the killing of dozens of Americans and Cuban freedom fighters and the imprisonment and subsequent torture of over 1,000 by the communist regime of late dictator Fidel Castro. The official newspaper of the Communist Party of Cuba,
Granma, celebrated the “legendary victory” with extensive paeans honoring the Party on Monday.
Dictator Fidel Castro took over the island of Cuba after years of avoiding the political conflict ongoing in the cities by fleeing into the remote Sierra Maestra and using the