My analysis of the CIA´s fiasco in the Bay of Pigs

http://www.telesurtv.net/english/analysis/Bay-of-Pigs-The-CIAs-Biggest-Fiasco-54-years-later-20150416-0042.html

Bay of Pigs, the CIA's Biggest Fiasco, 54 years later

Carmelo Ruiz

"Between April 17 and 19 of 1961, a force of Cuban mercenaries, led by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency tried to invade the Caribbean nation of Cuba. Within three days the attempt failed disastrously, with over 100 invaders dead and over 1,000 captured. Fifty-four years later, this historical event remains a sore point in hawkish cold war narratives. Cold warriors and right-wing hardliners in the U.S. still see it as an affront and humiliation, which demands retribution and redress. However, for progressives and anti-imperialists all over the world, the mention of the “Bay of Pigs” — know in the Spanish-speaking world as Playa Giron — evokes joy and celebration: The United States, an empire accustomed to imposing itself even in the farthest corners of the world, could not prevail and enforce its will on an island country 90 miles away from its shores. The empire could be defeated after all."