Cuba Commemorates US Bombing Of Its Airports, Says Still Under Attacks 53 Years On
Cuba Commemorates US Bombing Of Its Airports, Says Still Under Attacks 53 Years On
HAVANA, April 16 (BERNAMA-NNN-Prensa Latina) -- Cuba commemorates on Tuesday the 53rd anniversary of the bombings of its airports, ordered by the government of the United States and resulting in the prelude of the mercenary invasion that was defeated in record time in Playa Giron (Bay of Pigs).
The commemoration is taking place at a time when evidence shows new modalities of aggression against Cuba, described as non-conventional warfare in a training handbook of the Special Operation Forces of the U.S. Army.
At the dawn of Saturday, April 15, 1961, enemy planes camouflaged as aircraft of the recently-founded Revolutionary Armed Forces, attacked the airport in Ciudad Libertad (in the capital), the air base in San Antonio de los Banos (southeast of Havana) and the airport in the eastern city of Santiago de Cuba.
Eight B-26 planes departed from Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua, with the mission of destroying, on the ground, Cuba's modest aviation and guaranteeing the impunity of other incursions.
A fleet, armed and financed by the U.S. government had departed from that Nicaraguan city, carrying a mercenary brigade whose mission was to occupy a beachhead from where they would announce the establishment of a puppet government.
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