Fifty years ago Sunday, a brigade of around 1,500 CIA-trained soldiers stormed the beach in Cuba's Bay of Pigs. It was the opening phase of a secret mission to overthrow Fidel Castro. Of course ...

“I really admire toughness and courage, and I will tell you that the people of this brigade (Bay of Pigs freedom-fighters) 2506 really have that…you were let down by our country.'' (Donald ...

As the U.S. and NATO allies enter the fifth week in Libya, and as the price tag rises to more than $1 billion, let us recall that the Bay of Pigs lasted just five days and cost a mere $46 million ...

Though ultimately blamed for the fiasco at the Bay of Pigs, John F. Kennedy inherited the plan, with all of its flaws, from the Eisenhower administration.

Remembering the Bay of Pigs invasion. Fifty-four years after the failed CIA operation, Cubans there on Giron beach recount the botched raid.

This coastal town 100 miles east of the Bay of Pigs was originally chosen by the CIA and the military men because it was a hotbed of anti-Castro sentiment and offered good off-loading facilities.

The Bay of Pigs operation was only one of many American interventions aimed at beating back left-wing insurgencies and revolutions during the Cold War (often to the advantage of repressive, ...

Bay of Pigs veteran Johnny Lopez de la Cruz and US President Donald Trump attend an event honoring Bay of Pigs veterans in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC on September 23, 2020 ...

It has been 25 years since, on April 17, 1961, some 1,400 Cubans trained by the CIA at bases in Central America landed at the Bay of Pigs, where they fought bravely until, their ammunition and ...

Bay of Pigs veterans Eli Cesar, Raul Vallejo and Rigoberto Montesinos were inoculated with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine at the Monday event. All three veterans spent 20 months as prisoners of war ...

Bay of Pigs veteran Johnny Lopez de la Cruz and US President Donald Trump attend an event honoring Bay of Pigs veterans in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC on September 23, 2020 ...

MIAMI (CBSMiami/CNN) - For those who stormed a small stretch of Cuban coastline on April 17, 1961, the failed Bay of Pigs invasion was a turning point in the fight against an oppressive communist ...