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Article: The bay of pigs fiasco.
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- Esprit de Corps
- Article date:
- June 1, 2004
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My first real interest in Cuba was sparked during a three-year NATO tour serving with 4th Canadian Infantry Brigade Group in Germany. As an infantry captain serving with 1st Battalion, The Canadian Guards, from 1959 to 1962, newspaper articles mentioned the Cuban Revolution and that Castro had entered Havana victoriously on January 8, 1959. On August 8, 1960, Cuba commenced nationalization of the country's economic resources, which was followed by the United States breaking diplomatic relations with Cuba on January 3, 1961 and imposing an economic embargo.
On the 17th of April, 1961, approximately 1,500 mercenaries of Cuban origin living in the United States ...