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Article: Bay of Pigs celebrated as symbol of resistance.
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- South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, FL)
- Article date:
- April 16, 2006
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Byline: Mike Clary
Apr. 16--Playa Giron -- The palm-shaded beach here is not the cradle of the Cuban Revolution, but its crucible, where the fledgling government of rebel leader Fidel Castro was tested by the military might of the United States. And Castro won. "We had no fear," said Lucio Cain Valdez Alvarez, 74, who 45 years ago was a young construction worker summoned from his bed to help repel an invasion force of 1,400 Cuban exiles trained by the CIA and backed by the Kennedy administration. "When fighting for your country, you don't feel fear." This week, Valdez, along with other veterans, school children, and hundreds of other Cuban ...