“1,400 U.S.-trained Cuban exiles would land at the Bay of Pigs…It was an unmitigated disaster…Kennedy had learned the hard way not to blindly trust the advice of his decorated military and ...

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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 ...

Officers Alexia Reyes, left, and Ryan Dreseris help Arturo Sanchez-Bella, 87, center, make his way to a commemoration at the Bay of Pigs Memorial Park in Miami on April 12. MATIAS J. OCNER ...

Escaping that sentence would have been easy: simply sign the little paper confessing they were “mercenaries of the Yankee imperialists” or go on camera denouncing the U.S. Given these freedom-fighters ...

(Reuters) - A defining moment in the long history of exile opposition to Cuban leader Fidel Castro, who retired after nearly 50 years in power on Tuesday, was the failed CIA-backed Bay of Pigs ...

Sunday marks the 55th anniversary of the Bay of Pigs effort to remove Fidel Castro and the communist regime from power in Cuba. On Thursday, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., took to the Senate floor to ...

WASHINGTON - At 4 a.m. on Jan. 1, 1959, an hour when there never were commercial flights from Havana, David Atlee Phillips was lounging in a lawn chair there, sipping champagne after a New Year's Eve ...

Fifty years ago Sunday, a brigade of around 1,500 CIA-trained soldiers stormed the beach in Cuba's Bay of Pigs. It was the opening phase of a secret mission to overthrow Fidel Castro and, President ...

On a rain-soaked Wednesday afternoon, the city of Miami unveiled a statue commemorating the 62nd anniversary this month of the Bay of Pigs invasion, the one and last credible attempt by Cuban exiles ...