The fuzzy longing for children’s soccer fields slated to occupy a county parcel behind the American Airlines Arena could be shoved aside by the memories of those with much more political muscle: Cuban ...
Jose Ramon Fernandez, a retired brigadier general who was key in forming the communist country's new army and commanded Cuban defenses at the Bay of Pigs, has died, state media reported. He was 95.
Long-secret CIA papers give insight into the failed 1961 attempt to invade Cuba. MIAMI — Newly declassified U.S. documents show a CIA operative accidentally fired on friendly pilots during the 1961 ...
I went back into Cuba in February 1961, two months before the Bay of Pigs invasion. I was only 20 years old, but I had trained with U.S. agents for more than a year in communications and intelligence.
The panel on Thursday's RealClearPolitics podcast reacted to the unusual armed confrontation in the Florida Straits that Cuban officials described as a failed "infiltration for terrorist purposes." ...
The 50 th anniversary of the attempt to land a liberation force at Communist Cuba is being marked this week mainly in Havana, where the regime is holding its 6 th party congress and recalling its ...
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT)– Yesterday, a rare Douglas A-26 Bomber flew into Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport. Today, it will do a flyover in commemoration of the 64th anniversary of the Bay ...
MIAMI (AP) – Veterans from the failed Bay of Pigs invasion are celebrating 50 years since their release from Cuba. The first planeload of prisoners arrived at Homestead Air Force Base on Dec. 23, 1962 ...
Fifty years ago this weekend, the Cuban Revolution had its crystallizing moment: the defeat of the Bay of Pigs invasion. On April 17, 1961, a small army of 1,500 CIA-trained Cuban exiles stormed ...
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