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The Bay of Pigs 60th Anniversary, Part II frontpagemag.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from frontpagemag.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Outnumbered over ten to one by Soviet led forces and betrayed by their sponsor, these mostly civilian volunteers fought till the last bullet. In three days of relentless close-quarter fighting they made monkeys of the Soviet commanders at the scene and their Cuban lackeys and cannon-fodder, inflicting losses of 20 to one. Castro and Che were jittery there for awhile, urging caution in the counterattack. From the lethal fury of the attack and the horrendous casualties their troops and militia were taking, the two Soviets satraps assumed they faced at least 20,000 invading mercenaries, as they called them. Yet it was a band of mostly civilian volunteers they outnumbered laughably. But to hear Castro s echo chamber (the Beltway media and leftist academics), Fidel was the plucky David and the invaders the bumbling Goliath! ....
By SARAH MORENO | Miami Herald | Published: April 16, 2021 MIAMI (Tribune News Service) With his back to the beach where he had landed in an invasion to liberate his country, 16-year-old Humberto Martinez was just minutes away from execution. “Hold up, El Caballo wants them captured,” Martinez recalled a lieutenant saying, relaying orders from Fidel Castro nicknamed “the Horse to the improvised firing squad that was getting ready to execute seven members of the Brigade 2506 captured during the Bay of Pigs invasion. He had no time to think of anything before death. He was too young to fear it, said the now 76-year-old Martínez, who after six decades still has fresh memories of that April 17, 1961. ....
60 years after the Bay of Pigs invasion, no regime change appears likely in Cuba msn.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from msn.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.