Bay of Pigs Survivors On US-Cuba Thaw: 'Two American Presidents Betrayed Us'
Guardian (UK) ^ | December 23, 2014 | Richard Luscombe
It was presented to the world as a tearing down of barriers, a historic moment of reconciliation between the United States and Cuba’s communist government after half a century of hostility. But inside a small villa a stone’s throw from Calle Ocho in the heart of Miami’s Little Havana neighbourhood the talk is only of one word – betrayal.
The house is the Bay of Pigs museum and library where the ageing survivors of Brigade 2506, the CIA-trained fighting unit that failed to topple Fidel Castro in an ill-fated – and many say ill-advised – 1961 invasion, gather to discuss the affairs of their homeland.
More than five decades after the three-day conflict, which resulted in almost 120 of the invaders dying and 1,200 captured by Castro’s forces when the United States failed to deliver promised air support, the veterans are no longer the youthful and idealistic alliance of students, lawyers, bankers, former Cuban army soldiers and assorted others they once were.
At the last count, fewer than 900 were still alive, most now in their 70s and 80s. But while age may have slowed them physically, there remains much fire in their hardline opposition to the Marxist revolutionaries still running Cuba. And now, after last week’s extraordinary deal between the US president, Barack Obama, and the Cuban leader, Raúl Castro, Fidel’s brother, there is plenty of sadness too.
“The brigade members have been betrayed twice, once in April 1961, and now in December 2014,” said Julio González-Rebull, 78, who flew combat and resupply missions aboard a B-26 bomber from the assault team’s base in Guatemala during the failed invasion.
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1 posted on 12/23/2014, 11:05:33 PM by Steelfish
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To: Steelfish
And both of those Presidents were Democrats.
2 posted on 12/23/2014, 11:06:23 PM by MIchaelTArchangel
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‘Two American Presidents Betrayed Us’
Yep, both Democrats.
3 posted on 12/23/2014, 11:11:27 PM by vladimir998
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To: MIchaelTArchangel
Add Carter and Clinton.
4 posted on 12/23/2014, 11:12:42 PM by Kozak ("It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal" Henry Kissinger)
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Bookends, JFK and Obama.
Reagan described JFK as “One last thought,— shouldn’t some one tag Mr. Kennedy’s bold new imaginative program with it’s proper age? Under the tousled boyish hair cut it is still old Karl Marx—first launched a century ago. There is nothing new in the idea of a Govt. being Big Brother to us all. Hitler called his “State Socialism” and way before him it was “benevolent monarchy.”
5 posted on 12/23/2014, 11:14:39 PM by ansel12
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I know one of these guys.
He was a coworker of mine for 15 years, but he is retired now.
He would turn his head to the side and spit whenever he said “Kennedy”.
6 posted on 12/23/2014, 11:16:47 PM by Repeal The 17th (We have met the enemy and he is us.)
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It seems betrayal is par for the course when it comes to Democrats.
7 posted on 12/23/2014, 11:20:46 PM by GrandJediMasterYoda (Obama: 7 acts of blatant treason and counting.)
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Actually they were betrayed four times: I. Kennedy 2. The voters in 2008 when they put the muslim and American hater Obama in the white House. 3. In 2012 when the voters returned the muslim and American hater Obama to the White House. 4. 2012. When the muslim and American hater Obama who currently occupies the White House "normalized" relations with Castro. To the cheering section and Obama's amen corner: If you think that this move by the occupier of the white House will be good for America, you are in for a rude awakening. If it was good for America, he would not have done it.
8 posted on 12/23/2014, 11:26:36 PM by sport
To: Steelfish
Democrats are great for doing that - they did it in Vietnam, with the Church committee which all but destroyed our foreign intelligence network, with Iraq and out attempts to maintain a footprint in that part of the world. and now again in Cuba - it’s what they do.....
14 posted on 12/23/2014, 11:39:54 PM by Intolerant in NJ
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