One of the great U.S. foreign policy fiascos shows that presidents sometimes ignore the advice to hope for the best but prepare for the worst. Brigade 2506 landing craft at the Bay of Pigs after ...

MIAMI (AP) — Manuel Portuondo was still a teenager in 1960 when his family, like thousands of others, fled Cuba for Miami, following the culmination of the Cuban Revolution a year earlier. Crews ...

The infamous paramilitary assault remains a cautionary Cold War history. Sixty-five long years after the Kennedy White House launched a CIA-led paramilitary invasion at the Bahia de Cochinos, the ...

Manuel Portuondo was still a teenager in 1960 when his family, like thousands of others, fled Cuba for Miami, following the culmination of the Cuban Revolution a year earlier. Soon after, while still ...

Bay of Pigs veteran Francisco J. Hernandez points out fellow Brigade 2506 members he knew personally who were killed in the 1961 invasion as the Bay of Pigs Museum prepares to reopen in a new and ...