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Botched Coups and Failed Assassinations: The Bay of Pigs
You can’t win them all.
In 1961, America experienced the sting of its first truly humiliating public defeat, a debacle that played out in real time on the international stage. The bungled and bloody Bay of Pigs Invasion would mark the first major misstep of the Kennedy administration, and as “Operation Zapata” began to unravel in Cuba, the resulting scandal would undermine America’s carefully crafted image as a shining beacon of virtue.
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Mafia’s Playground
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz
Che Guevara
The Movement
The Moncada Army Barracks
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