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Playa Giron, Also a Defeat for U.S. Lies

CUBA, April 11, 2011.- The truth will out, as the old Cuban saying goes, and it perfectly suits the mercenary aggression against Cuba 50 years ago.

As prelude to the attack through Giron Beach, eight B-26 bombers painted with the emblems of the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces bombed the island, attacking that victorious revolutionary people instead of defending it.

The planes targeted three airports: one in the San Antonio de los Baños municipality outside Havana, another in Santiago de Cuba, and a third in the capital itself.

The attackers' objective was to destroy Cuban planes on the ground so that Cuba would not have air defense during the subsequent Playa Giron invasion, known as the Bay of Pigs within U.S. political circles.

Very early on April 15, 1961, Cuban pilots, mechanics, and artillerymen, many of them young, rapidly got into position and activated the antiair defense without delay.

According to testimony from the protagonists of those events, they had only one thing in mind: to fight until the very last to preserve the independence achieved with so much blood and sacrifice.

Though it was obvious to the Cubans from the start that the United States was involved in the events, later statements by the mercenary invaders and CIA disclosures corroborated Washington's responsibility. (Cubaminrex-Prensa Latina)

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