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, ...

Editor’s note: This story was originally published on April 17, 2025. A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On April 17, 1961, some 1,400 CIA-trained Cuban ...

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“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 ...

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.

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, ...

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 ...

MIAMI (AP) — Manuel Portuondo was still a teenager in 1960 when his family, like thousands of others, fled Cuba for Miami, following the culmination of the Cuban Revolution a year earlier. Soon after, ...

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 ...