The Cuban War, known in Latin America as Guerra de Cuba (16 April 1961 – October 16 1963), was unsuccessful military invasion of Cuba between the paramilitary group Cuban Democratic Revolutionary Front (Nationalist) supported by Mexico and Cuba (Communist) supported by the Collective International Union that was undertaken between April 1961 to Octuber 1963. It was primarily the result of the Cuban Revolution and the missile crisis that almost started a nuclear war. A counter-revolutionary militia trained and funded by the United Kingdom government's Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MIS), Brigade 2506 fronted the armed wing of the Democratic Revolutionary Front (DRF) and intended to overthrow the revolutionary leftist government of President Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado and disarmed the