• 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BAY OF PIGS
Preparing another invasion
August 18.11
IN July 1961, President John F. Kennedy was putting the finishing touches on a plan to send in U.S. troops in order to prevent communist domination in Cuba.

• Your mission: to win
April 14.11
"MY first instinct was to come back here. Imagine, we heard that they had bombed the airports. I immediately thought about the Rancho Boyeros one – I live now, and then, right beside the runway – what might have happened to my family, I asked myself."

• Renovation of Girón Museum
Mementos of war
April 7.11
CIENAGA DE ZAPATA.— The Girón Museum (Bay of Pigs), an institution which celebrates in images, artifacts and other elements the epic feat of April 1961, is close to the completion of a major renovation which will restore the building’s well-known splendor.

• The Moncada of the young artillery
March 24.11
IN October 1960, Comandante en Jefe Fidel Castro Ruz called on young people to rapidly learn to handle antiaircraft weapons which were beginning to arrive in Cuba from the socialist countries.

• The commander who covered us with his life
March 18.11
I was in Playa Girón [Bay of Pigs] like thousands of Cubans who had the privilege of living those heroic days in the defense of the socialist Revolution, with weapons in our hands, confronting imperialist aggression against our people.

• Why the invasion via the Ciénaga?
March 10.11
WITH the approval of President Ike Eisenhower, and as part of the strategy against the Cuban Revolution, government agencies and the CIA in particular, developed a military operation to prevent the consolidation of a “communist government” in the U.S. backyard.

• Poetry in battle
February 17.11
DURING the afternoon of April 17, 1961 following the mercenary landing and taking of Playa Girón (Bay of Pigs), militia forces from the Aguada de Pasajeros Battalion; militias working at the INRA (National Institute of Agrarian Reform) and Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR) Security Detachment troops involved in...