Bay of Pigs, remembered
Forty four years ago today, 1500 Cuban members of La Brigada 2506 were left to die at Bahia de Cochinos, the Bay of Pigs. They were betrayed by President John Kennedy. Kennedy had promised air support for the invasion, but reneged on his word. Grayston Lynch, the CIA agent who fired the first shot in the debacle reported that ”The only heartening observation . . . was that the brigade had fought magnificently. Outnumbered in every battle by at least twenty to one, it had inflicted heavy casualties on Castro’s forces at a rate of fifty to one.”
Of Kennedy’s broken promise, Lynch had this to say ”This may have been the politically proper way to fight a war, according to the rules laid down by the ‘armchair generals’ of Camelot, but we called it murder.”
Tributo a Girón
Por Amanda Vergara
En los libros de la historia, quedarán sus nombres
puestos, como hombres dignos y honestos viviran en nuestra memória.
Cubanos que allí lucharon, con tesón y valentía, sin egoismo ni odio,
pero llenos de cubanía. En las playas de Girón, un día no muy lejano,
gritaremos:¡No fue en vano la sangre de mis hermanos! Cuba recordará siempre a los
hombres que con desvelo pelearon y allí murieron abrazados a su suelo.
Posted on April 17th, 2005 by pwyll
Filed under: Cuba, politics
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