Pigs, which is located on the south coast of Cuba about 97

miles southeast of Havanna, was one of mismanagement, poor

judgment, and stupidity ("Bay of Pigs" 378). The blame

for the failed invasion falls directly on the CIA (Central

Intelligence Agency) and a young president by the name of

John F. Kennedy. The whole intention of the invasion was to

assault communist Cuba and put an end to Fidel Castro.

Ironically, thirty-nine years after the Bay of Pigs, Fidel

Castro is still in power. First, it is necessary to look at

why the invasion happened and then why it did not work.

From the end of World War II until the mid-eighties,

most Americans could agree that communism was the enemy.

Communism wanted to destroy our way of life and corrupt the

freest country in the world. Communism is an economic

system in which one person or a group of people are in

control. The main purpose of communism is to make the

social and economic status of all individuals the same. It

abolishes the inequalities in possession of property and

distributes wealth equally to all. The main problem with

this is that one person who is very wealthy can

Christmas, 1962 (Goode, Stephen 82).

generating a military establishment ten times larger than

government became the top priority of the CIA (Goode,

invasion, but these orders seemed to be ignored. About 200

hours the army organized during many

Fulgencio Batista fled the country for the safety of the

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