Bay of Pigs – Orestes Chamizo points at a scrubby patch of sand on Cuba's Bay of Pigs, showing the spot where a brigade of U.S.-trained Cuban exiles landed on the island's southern coast on April 17, ...

Editor’s note: This story was originally published on April 17, 2025. A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On April 17, 1961, some 1,400 CIA-trained Cuban ...

Jorge Luis Rodriguez, the president of the American Missile Crisis Veterans Association, attends a commemoration event at the Bay of Pigs Memorial Park on Wednesday, April 12, 2023, in Miami, Fla.

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 ...

A former Brothers to the Rescue pilot and several Cuban exiles gathered at the newly renovated Bay of Pigs museum, where<a class="excerpt-read-more" href=" More ...

“1,400 U.S.-trained Cuban exiles would land at the Bay of Pigs…It was an unmitigated disaster…Kennedy had learned the hard way not to blindly trust the advice of his decorated military and ...

MIAMI-- Plans are underway for a $2 million expansion of the Bay of Pigs Museum located in Miami's Little Havana neighborhood. Rafael Montalvo, president of the Bay of Pigs Veterans Association, and ...

Officers Alexia Reyes, left, and Ryan Dreseris help Arturo Sanchez-Bella, 87, center, make his way to a commemoration at the Bay of Pigs Memorial Park in Miami on April 12. MATIAS J. OCNER ...

Fifty years ago Sunday, a brigade of around 1,500 CIA-trained soldiers stormed the beach in Cuba's Bay of Pigs. It was the opening phase of a secret mission to overthrow Fidel Castro and, President ...