Bay Of Pigs Summary

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The story of the failed invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs , located on the southern coast of Cuba about 97 miles southeast of Havana, was one of mismanagement, poor judgment , and stupidity ( " Bay Pigs " 378). The blame for the failed invasion falls directly on the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) and a young man by the name of President John F. Kennedy. The whole purpose of the invasion was a communist assault Cuba and Fidel Castro ended . Ironically , thirty nine years after the Bay of Pigs , Fidel Castro remains in power . First, we need to analyze why the invasion happened and then why it did not work .

Since the end of World War II until the mid- eighties , most Americans could agree that communism was the enemy. Communism wanted to destroy our way of life and corrupt the freest country in the world. Communism is an economic system in which a person or group of persons who are in control. The main purpose of communism is to make social and economic status of all individuals of the same . Deletes inequalities in property ownership and wealth distributed equally to everyone . The main problem with this is that a person who is rich can be stripped of most of his fortune to someone else can have more material goods and be his equal .

The main reason for the Bay of Pigs attack on Cuba was the change to communism. The January 1, 1959 , the Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista fled the country for the safety of the Dominican Republic ( Goode, Stephen 75). Fidel Castro and his guerrilla warriors overthrew the former government dictated by Batista. Over the next couple of weeks , Castro established a new government and on February 16 was officially declared premier ( Finkelstein , Norman H. 127). The United States accepted this new ...

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...pacity. draft CIA went ahead with the pathetic illusion of denial. authorities had failed to advise the president at the right time , that success had become dubious and recommend that the operation therefore be canceled "(Nelson , Craig 1).

Other factors that were criticized the lack of adequate air cover failures to maintain secrecy and security, leaks to the press , and political infighting among the exiles who seemed more suspicious of each other Castro ( Goode, Stephen 84 ) .
In conclusion , not the government really believes that a force of 1,500 men were no match for the army of 400,000 Castro ? Do they believe that their plan to attack was infallible ? Is your time is taken to plan the attack , or were too eager to overthrow Castro who left important details ? If they had stopped asking these questions , it is likely that they had canceled the whole thing.

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