50th Anniversary of Bay of Pigs.

[dipsydoodle]

HAVANA, Cuba — Police watch a truck in Havana carrying an April 1961 photograph of then Cuba leader Fidel Castro (left) jumping from a tank. Cuba yesterday had rehearsals for the upcoming parade commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Bay of Pigs. The parade commemorating the anniversary of the failed 1961 invasion by US-backed Cuban exiles takes place tomorrow. (Photo: AP)

Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Bay-of-Pigs_8671293#ixzz1Ja0pz9OX

Actual BBC News report form 17th April 1961 :

US denial

In a statement in Washington, the US Secretary of State, Dean Rusk, has again denied US involvement in the invasion of Cuba.

He said the United States had not, and would not intervene in Cuba, with armed forces or otherwise.

Strong suspicions that the United States is sponsoring an offensive against the Castro government have been fuelled by the bombing of three of Cuba's military air bases two days ago.

The US denied all knowledge of the episode, saying Cuban Air Force pilots defecting to Florida were responsible.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/17/newsid_3394000/3394067.stm

[flamingdem]

1. 50 years! That is a huge landmark nt

[EFerrari]

2. Fifty years and my government has learned little or nothing

except for how to carry a grudge.

[flamingdem]

3. truly they have nothing left on them now

all the dissidents are gone, they're going capitalist kinda what more do they want... heh

[Judi Lynn]

4. Hope one day the complete story will be common knowledge concerning how HARD

the U.S. tried to crush this revolutionary government.

We have seen the outlines but all the information has been concealed, as it's probably far too shameful seeing how low the government stooped. The C.I.A. has already acknowledged it has made HUNDREDS of assassination attempts on Fidel Castro, as we all learned years ago.

Happy birthday to the Cuban Revolution. They are entitled to follow their own way, just as the US Americans were entitled to their own Revolution, brought on by circumstances far less deadly than those which drove Cuba to overthrow the US supported monsters.

[Judi Lynn]

5. US-Cuban relations still colored by Bay of Pigs invasion 50 years on

15.04.2011
US-Cuban relations still colored by Bay of Pigs invasion 50 years on

After a three-day conflict which would become known as the Bay of Pigs invasion, the proxy army of the US was routed by Cuban forces, Castro's leadership and hold over Cuba was strengthened and a lasting enmity between the US and Cuba was assured.

"The failed invasion effectively secured Fidel Castro's rule on the island," Dr. Bert Hoffmann, a Latin America expert at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) in Hamburg, told Deutsche Welle. "Fidel was widely celebrated as the hero who defeated 'US imperialism' and the Bay of Pigs remains a key highlight in the Revolution's heroic 'success story' and legitimizing narrative."

From the US point of view, the Bay of Pigs invasion was a huge embarrassment. Despite the best efforts of President John F. Kennedy and the CIA to avoid any evidence linking the United States to Brigade 2506, no-one - especially Castro - believed that the US was innocent. With hindsight, it became clear that the efforts of the White House to maintain plausible deniability throughout the operation eventually undermined the invasion and led to its failure.

The planning for the removal of Castro and his revolutionary regime in Cuba began a year before Kennedy took office when then President Dwight D. Eisenhower approved a document advocating "the replacement of the Castro regime with one more devoted to the true interests of the Cuban people and more acceptable to the US in such a manner to avoid any appearance of US intervention."

More:
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,14991860,00.html?maca=en-rss-en-world-4025-rdf

[EFerrari]

6. A case could be made that the Cold War was more

about the US projecting its power in this hemisphere than about anything between us and the Russians.

[Judi Lynn]

7. All done very slickly, too, without the US citizens' awareness. They found all the traitors

who were more than glad to betray their countrymen/women for power, wealth, and those who wouldn't go along with them got visits from the jackals, as John Perkins admits, as well as any number of other former "employees" of the human underworld.

They were much busier right here in this hemisphere than we realized, turning lives into living hells for innocent people throughout.

No doubt you're right on this. It makes you wonder how much we were told about anything even resembled the truth back then.