1962 Bay of Pigs invasion, when tiny Cuba brought mighty US to its knees; is Bay of Pigs 2.0 unfolding to irk and defeat ...

MIAMI (CBSMiami/CNN) - For those who stormed a small stretch of Cuban coastline on April 17, 1961, the failed Bay of Pigs invasion was a turning point in the fight against an oppressive communist ...

MIAMI (CBSMiami) - President Trump will deliver remarks in honor of Bay of Pigs veterans on Wednesday morning. In April 1961, under the leadership of the new Kennedy administration, the CIA directed ...

It was 60 years ago this week that an uncertain new president launched an ill-conceived military venture of astonishing naivety. The scheme was straightforward and audacious: 1,400 U.S.-trained Cuban ...

WASHINGTON - At 4 a.m. on Jan. 1, 1959, an hour when there never were commercial flights from Havana, David Atlee Phillips was lounging in a lawn chair there, sipping champagne after a New Year's Eve ...

HIALEAH GARDENS, Florida — Cuban flags hang from the walls and model planes seem to float in the atrium as bright Florida sunshine pours into the Hialeah Gardens Museum Honoring Brigade 2506, a ...

“1,400 U.S.-trained Cuban exiles would land at the Bay of Pigs…It was an unmitigated disaster…Kennedy had learned the hard way not to blindly trust the advice of his decorated military and ...

And yet again, rather than go through the trouble of concocting their own propaganda, communist Cuba’s KGB-founded and mentored media simply transcribed the U.S. beltway media….Think I exaggerate? “It ...

In a presidential election where truth — or better said, the lack of it — is on the ballot, a small painting with the insignia of the Bay of Pigs veterans association, Brigade 2506, has become a point ...

Officers Alexia Reyes, left, and Ryan Dreseris help Arturo Sanchez-Bella, 87, center, make his way to a commemoration at the Bay of Pigs Memorial Park in Miami on April 12. MATIAS J. OCNER ...

MIAMI — Sunday marked a historic anniversary in Cuban American history. It’s been 61 years since the botched Bay of Pigs invasion. Hundreds of Cuban exiles tried to overthrow Fidel Castro from power, ...