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63rd anniversary of first Yankee defeat in America
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4/20/2024
Cuba celebrates on April 19, the victory over the mercenary invasion of Playa Giron in 1961, where it demonstrated to the world its willingness to defend with weapons the revolutionary process initiated on January 1,1959. teleSUR
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Cuba celebrates on April 19th the victory over the mercenary invasion of Playa Giron in 1961,
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when it demonstrated to the world its willingness to defend with weapons the
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revolutionary process initiated on January 1st, 1959. After hard battles following the
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landing three days earlier of some 1,500 mercenaries in that area of the Zapata Swamp
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in the western province of Matanzas, the forces of the rebel army, the National Revolutionary Police
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and the popular militias defeated the invaders. The aggression was organized by the U.S. Central
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Intelligence Agency and had the air and naval support of the Army of the Northern Power,
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whose government intended since then to reverse the process of social transformations in Cuba.
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For Fidel Castro, that April 19th, 1961, Yankee imperialism received its main victory.
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