President Miguel Diaz-Canel attended an event commemorating the 61st anniversary of the victory of Cubans against the U.S.-backed invasion that landed at the Bay of Pigs in 1961.
The B-26s bombed the airports Libertad and San Antonio in Havana and the Antonio Maceo aerodrome in Santiago on April 15, 1961. The next day, at the burial of the American victims, Commander in Chief Fidel Castro created the popular militias and declared the socialist nature of the Cuban Revolution.
President Dwight D. Eisenhower and President John F. Kennedy financed “Pluto”, which included 1,500 mercenaries trained by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
The five US ships left Nicaragua on April 17 and attempted a maritime landing in the Matanzas province. There were 150 Cubans killed and hundreds wounded in the fighting and bombing.