63rd anniversary of first Yankee defeat in America

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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  Visit our website: https://www.telesurenglish.net/ Watch our videos here: https://videos.telesurenglish.net/en

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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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