00:00 Cuba celebrates on April 19th the victory over the mercenary invasion of Playa Giron in 1961,
00:06 when it demonstrated to the world its willingness to defend with weapons the
00:10 revolutionary process initiated on January 1st, 1959. After hard battles following the
00:16 landing three days earlier of some 1,500 mercenaries in that area of the Zapata Swamp
00:23 in the western province of Matanzas, the forces of the rebel army, the National Revolutionary Police
00:28 and the popular militias defeated the invaders. The aggression was organized by the U.S. Central
00:34 Intelligence Agency and had the air and naval support of the Army of the Northern Power,
00:39 whose government intended since then to reverse the process of social transformations in Cuba.
00:44 For Fidel Castro, that April 19th, 1961, Yankee imperialism received its main victory.
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