Cuban Prime Minister Manuel Marrero today recalled the bombings of the country’s airports in 1961, which preceded the mercenary invasion at Playa Girón, supported by the United States government.The attacks occurred simultaneously at the three airfields with the purpose of destroying the Cuban revolutionary air force and carrying out the subsequent invasion of that point in the national territory, also known as the Bay of Pigs.
Marrero also recalled militiaman Eduardo García Delgado, one of the seven victims of machine-gun attacks, which also left 53 people injured.
The young combatant, barely 25 years old, fell defending the homeland and before his death, wrote in blood the name of the historic leader and commander-in-chief of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, the head of government.
The enclaves were attacked by eight B-26 aircraft that took off from Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua, camouflaged with the insignia of the island’s Revolutionary Air Force.
The following day, during the burial of the victims, Fidel Castro declared the socialist character of the Cuban Revolution. A few hours later, in the early morning of the 17th, the mercenary landing took place, to be neutralized in less than 72 hours by groups of troops and the people of the Caribbean country. Those events are remembered as the first major defeat of US imperialism in Latin America.
