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Nothing strengthens a totalitarian regime more than a failure, a rout of foreign intervention
.” It is with these words that the correspondent of Le
Figaro
in Washington, Nicolas Châtelain, concluded on April 21, 1961 the disastrous episode of the landing of anti-Castroists in the Bay of Pigs.
A few days earlier, on April 17, more than a thousand Cuban exiles grouped under the name Brigade 2506 and trained by the CIA, attempted to invade the island of Cuba via Playa Giron in the Bay of Pigs at less than 200 kilometers from Havana. The operation had already begun on the 15th with a bombing of several airfields. “
It is no secret that there is growing opposition in Cuba against the regime of Fidel Castro and that government troops have not yet succeeded in eliminating the numerous maquis that have been created on the island. We could therefore expect incidents and violence at any moment
,” analyzes
Le Figaro.
Opponents trained by the CIA
Since coming to power…