The Bay Pigs Invasion. Every 19 april there is a celebration with military parades, commemorating what the cuban. The attack began the morning of april 15, 1961, with what was supposed to be an.
Government decided there was a communist threat too close to home; Cuban exiles had been trained as an invasion force by the cia and former u.s. Bay of pigs invasion, abortive invasion of cuba at the bahia de cochinos (bay of pigs), or playa giron (giron beach) to cubans, on april 17, 1961, by some 1,500 cuban exiles opposed to fidel castro.
