Pigs is one of mismanagement, overconfidence, and lack of

security. The blame for the failure of the operation falls

directly in the lap of the Central Intelligence Agency and a

young president and his advisors. The fall out from the

invasion caused a rise in tension between the two great

superpowers and ironically 34 years after the event, the

person that the invasion meant to topple, Fidel Castro,

is still in power. To understand the origins of the invasion

and its ramifications for the future it is first necessary

to look at the invasion and its origins.

The Bay of Pigs invasion of April 1961, started a few

days before on April 15th with the bombing of Cuba by what

appeared to be defecting Cuban air force pilots. At 6 a.m.

in the morning of that Saturday, three Cuban military bases

were bombed by B-26 bombers. The airfields at Camp Libertad,

San Antonio de los Baos and Antonio Maceo airport at

Santiago de Cuba were fired upon. Seven people were killed

at Libertad and forty-seven people were killed at other

Two of the B-26s left Cuba and flew to Miami,

failure is that Forty years later Castro is still in power.

22mm. cannon, and tank fire at them. By Wednesday the

When looking at a modern map of Cuba it is obvious that

the Marsopa and the supply ship the Houston, blasting them

operations against the USSR, both men were lacking in

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