They landed at dawn on 17 April 1961. By the afternoon of 19 April they had already been defeated.
Sixty years after the Gulf of Pigs intrusion - the fell short seek towards topple Fidel Castro's routine in Cuba - the isle remains to commemorate its own triumph while the invaders that endured reside on in the US along with the contentment of possessing carried out their task. BBC Mundo takes a look at the army program and also the fact of exactly just what unfurled.
Johnny López de la Cruz really experiences robbed of sky. Secured in a lorry along with much more than one hundred various other detainees, he may scarcely inhale.
Interior the automobile, the detainees are actually acquiring hopeless. They sweat. Numerous collapse.
Some get rid of the clasps coming from their army belt towards perforate the car's roof and also permit some sky in. They are actually getting opportunity. Yet very most assume to become carried out as quickly as they get here in Havana.
The automobile gets here at its own place 7 hrs eventually. Army employees available the doors. Numerous physical bodies come under the asphalt. 9 detainees have actually perished in the course of the travel.
When it is actually Johnny's look to go out, he scarcely takes care of towards leap out.
Certainly there certainly are actually even more detainees besides those getting here in the "lorry of fatality". In complete, expand around numerous automobiles, certainly there certainly are actually virtually 1,one hundred detainees.
They are actually the survivors of the 2506 Brigade, an military of 1,400 young people that hrs just before possessed fell short in their seek towards attack Cuba, smashed at Giron coastline through Fidel Castro's compels.
Very most are actually Cuban exiles that, adhering to Castro's triumph, were actually hired and also skilled due to the CIA towards topple the island's revolutionary federal authorities.
Fidel Castro possessed arrived at electrical power a little much more than pair of years just before, on 1 January 1959, when his compels brought down the federal authorities of Fulgencio Batista, which they charged of being actually totalitarian and also unscrupulous.
They landed at dawn on 17 April 1961. By the afternoon of 19 April they had already been defeated.
Regardless of significant preferred assist for Castro, lots of Cubans didn't acknowledge along with his change and also left behind for exile.
The Gulf of Pigs intrusion of 1961 was actually doomed towards fall short also just before the 1st fired was actually discharged. The Brigade still condemns Washington.
Coming from the White colored Residence, US Head of state John F Kennedy terminated in the nick of time the US sky strikes that will have actually neutralised Castro's aeronautics.
He carried out thus due to the fact that he really experienced the Joined Conditions can certainly not seem responsible for the intrusion. Being actually observed therefore will certainly not simply harm its own global track record, yet will additionally offer a justification towards the Soviet Union, which back then was actually consolidating its own placement as a crucial ally of Castro, towards answer and also provoke an extraordinary nuclear problem.
Under these scenarios, the strike due to the figured out yet unskilled young people that desired for "liberating Cuba coming from Castro" lasted lower than 72 hrs.
