It was 60 years ago this week that an uncertain new president launched an ill-conceived military venture of astonishing naivety. The scheme was straightforward and audacious: 1,400 U.S.-trained Cuban ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two women connect to the internet near a billboard reading "The mercenaries reached this far" as Cuba marks the 65th anniversary ...

One of the great U.S. foreign policy fiascos shows that presidents sometimes ignore the advice to hope for the best but prepare for the worst. Brigade 2506 landing craft at the Bay of Pigs after ...

Eduardo Zayas Bazán was one of the first members of Brigade 2506 to open fire when he landed on a southern Cuba beach on April 17, 1961. He was 25 and part of a group of determined Cuban exiles intent ...

MIAMI (CBSMiami/CNN) - For those who stormed a small stretch of Cuban coastline on April 17, 1961, the failed Bay of Pigs invasion was a turning point in the fight against an oppressive communist ...

The infamous paramilitary assault remains a cautionary Cold War history. Sixty-five long years after the Kennedy White House launched a CIA-led paramilitary invasion at the Bahia de Cochinos, the ...

The Bay of Pigs Invasion, as most folks call it now, was an embarrassing defeat for Kennedy and the United States. It showed the CIA was in over their heads. They got too cocky and miscalculated. And ...

April 17 marks the 60th anniversary of the failed invasion at Cuba’s Bay of Pigs. The invasion was the absolute nadir of John F. Kennedy’s presidency, unanimously condemned as the epitome of ...

Survivors recall early plans for the Bay of Pigs invasion. Surviving Cuban-American dissidents recall the early plans for the Bay of Pigs invasion, and how last minute changes made by the US ...