Apr
19
2024
Cuba remembers victory over mercenary invasion in 1961
Havana, April 19 (Prensa Latina) With the victory of the mercenary invasion of Playa Girón, on a day like today, April 19, 1961, Cuba demonstrated to the world its willingness to defend with arms the revolutionary process begun on April 1. January 1959.
After tough fighting after the landing three days before of some 1,500 mercenaries in that area of the Zapata Swamp, in the western province of Matanzas, the forces of the Rebel Army, the National Revolutionary Police and the popular militias defeated the invaders.
