Jorge Luis Rodriguez, the president of the American Missile Crisis Veterans Association, attends a commemoration event at the Bay of Pigs Memorial Park on Wednesday, April 12, 2023, in Miami, Fla.

The infamous paramilitary assault remains a cautionary Cold War history. Sixty-five long years after the Kennedy White House launched a CIA-led paramilitary invasion at the Bahia de Cochinos, the ...

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 ...

Eduardo Zayas Bazán was one of the first members of Brigade 2506 to open fire when he landed on a southern Cuba beach on April 17, 1961. He was 25 and part of a group of determined Cuban exiles intent ...

The disastrous failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion was all the more embarrassing to John F. Kennedy because by some widely believed accounts he lost his nerve and doomed the expedition by calling off ...

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, ...

A new installment of “Lessons Learned” is now out. This week I discuss the Bay of Pigs invasion, which began on April 17, 1961. In the video, I look at the mistakes made before and during the invasion ...

This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today. Fifty years ago Sunday, a brigade of ...

Sixty years before Juan Mora’s Florida condo building came crashing down, killing him and at least 93 others, he was among hundreds of Cuban exiles who signed up for a covert, CIA-funded operation to ...

Bay of Pigs – Orestes Chamizo points at a scrubby patch of sand on Cuba's Bay of Pigs, showing the spot where a brigade of U.S.-trained Cuban exiles landed on the island's southern coast on April 17, ...