| Military
parade to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Bay of
Pigs and the beginning of the Cuban Communist Party 6th
Congress..
The Bay of Pigs Invasion was an unsuccessful action by a
CIA-trained force of Cuban exiles to invade southern Cuba,
with support and encouragement from the US government, in
an attempt to overthrow the Cuban government of Fidel Castro.
The invasion was launched in April 1961, less than three
months after John F. Kennedy assumed the presidency in the
United States. The Cuban armed forces, trained and equipped
by Eastern Bloc nations, defeated the invading combatants
within three days.
|
