17 de abril de 1961

Boy, you think the U.S. media misunderstands events in Latin America now?

“Is this the first chink in Castro’s armor?”  … uh… no.

As Cuban Journal puts it:

… On the 17th of April, 1961, the imperialists landed their Miami mercenaries, which they had not-so-secretly trained in Nicaragua and Guatemala, two nations that back then were governed by two pliant puppets of U.S. imperialism.

The Yankees thought that all it would take to overthrow the revolutionary government would be to land CIA-trained and directed mercenaries. They did not contend with the eternal vigilance of the Cuban people, who were determined to defend the conquests and achievements of their nascent Revolution.

A totally immoral man was at the White House back then; he was a known womanizer and a typical American politician. The previous president, Dwight D. Eisenhower, had approved Operation Pluto, the name given to this silly adventure created by the gooks at the C.I.A. JFK gave the go-ahead to continue the immoral, and ultimately disastrous operation.

In less than 72 hours, 66 to be exact, the people, the armed forces and the workers militias slapped the Miami mercenaries on the face and sent them to jail…

Among the 1200 or so captured invaders were 100 plantation owners, 67 apartment house landlords, 35 factory owners; 112 businessmen and 179 men who lived off investments and inheritances, as well as a smattering of C.I.A. agents, and “contractors”…

Most prisoners, excluding those who died during their captivity or of their wounds (or, like C.I.A. “contractors” Angus K. McNair and Howard F. Anderson were executed) were freed to the United States within 18 months…