The Bay of Pigs Invasion (known as La Batalla de Gir?or Playa Gir?n Cuba) was an unsuccessful attempt by CIA-trained force of Cuban exiles to invade southern Cuba with support from US government armed forces, to overthrow the Cuban government of Fidel Castro. Launched shortly after John F. Kennedy assumed presidency in 1961, the operation intended to employ similar tactics as those used in the 1954 Guatemalan coup d'?t.
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| - The Bay of Pigs Invasion (known as La Batalla de Gir?or Playa Gir?n Cuba) was an unsuccessful attempt by CIA-trained force of Cuban exiles to invade southern Cuba with support from US government armed forces, to overthrow the Cuban government of Fidel Castro. Launched shortly after John F. Kennedy assumed presidency in 1961, the operation intended to employ similar tactics as those used in the 1954 Guatemalan coup d'?t.
- The Bay of Pigs Invasion, known in Hispanic America as Invasión de Bahía de Cochinos (or Invasión de Playa Girón or Batalla de Girón), was an unsuccessful military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506 on 17 April 1961. A counter-revolutionary military trained and funded by the United States government's Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Brigade 2506 fronted the armed wing of the Democratic Revolutionary Front (DRF) and intended to overthrow the revolutionary left wing government of Fidel Castro. Launched from Guatemala, the invading force was defeated within three days by the Cuban armed forces, under the direct command of Prime Minister Fidel Castro.
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| - c. 1,500 ground forces
- c. 200,000 Cuban militia
- c. 25,000 Cuban army
- c. 9,000 armed police
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- Fidel Castro
- Che Guevara
- Juan Almeida Bosque
- Erneido Oliva
- Efigenio Ameijeiras
- José Ramón Fernández
- Pepe San Román
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| - Map showing the location of the Bay of Pigs
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| Casualties
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- Cuban army:
- Cuban militia and police:
- c. 4,000 killed, wounded, missing
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- Brigade 2506
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| - Bay of Pigs, southern coast of Cuba
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| - — Earl T. Smith, former American Ambassador to Cuba, during 1960 testimony to the U.S. Senate
- — Life magazine magazine
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