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Sixty years ago, nearly 1,500 Cuban exiles, trained and funded by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, launched an invasion at the Bay of Pigs beach in Cuba in an ill-fated attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro.
Despite the optimism of the exiles in the report printed below, Cuban armed forces under the direct command of Castro rapidly overwhelmed and repelled them, killing 114 and capturing 1,100.
This week 60 years after the failed coup attempt, Raul Castro, who took over for his brother Fidel in 2008, stepped down as the head of the Communist Party of Cuba, ending his family’s six-decade hold on power in Cuba.
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