MIAMI (AP) — Manuel Portuondo was still a teenager in 1960 when his family, like thousands of others, fled Cuba for Miami, following the culmination of the Cuban Revolution a year earlier. Soon after, ...
The Bay of Pigs Invasion, as most folks call it now, was an embarrassing defeat for Kennedy and the United States. It showed the CIA was in over their heads. They got too cocky and miscalculated. And ...
Bay of Pigs veteran Francisco J. Hernandez points out fellow Brigade 2506 members he knew personally who were killed in the 1961 invasion as the Bay of Pigs Museum prepares to reopen in a new and ...