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karimamarika456 · Dołączył: 11 Mar 2024 Posty: 1

The arrival to the government of the July Movement (see Desperta Ferro Contemporánea no. : The Cuban Revolution ) was conditioned by two reasons: first by the imposition of arms against their enemy, and second by the political ambiguity that they wielded great part of its leaders, including Fidel Castro himself . The United States provided specific and important support for the guerrilla campaign led by the Castros against the dictator Fulgencio Batista . Castro's ambiguity regarding his policies earned him much sympathy and support, since there was still no trace of a Marxist discourse. The new government began to enact laws to regulate the life of the country with profound reforms, especially in the economic framework. This undoubtedly affected the United States fully, which saw how its businesses and plantations were first intervened and then expropriated. Added to all this was that sugar was no longer purchased under US conditions and was instead exported under exclusively Cuban terms.

On the other hand, the overthrow of Batista was not satisfactory for all Cubans at that time, something that is visible in the large number of exiles who left the island before the arrival of the revolutionary forces. This group of exiles, the vast majority of whom were former authorities of the police, army and members of the Batista government, took refuge in Miami (United States). From this geographical point close to Cuba, the creation of the first fully anti-Castro B2B Email List movements began. The subsequent agreements with the Soviet Union definitively convinced the United States that the new Cuba was a danger to its global strategy. In the oval office of the White House, an invasion of the island began to be plotted, for which the exiles residing in Miami would be used as military forces, which in the end would give a vision more of "liberation" than of an invasion itself. bliss. The approach and the brigade The material resources of the United States and the human strength of the Cuban exiles would be the perfect formula to overthrow the new Cuban revolutionary government.

The approach to the invasion took several twists and turns until an organized deployment was finally presented. At first, what would be Brigade was nothing more than a few dozen former officers of Batista's army ; Recruitment began between April and May [] . These dozens increased in number until they became a fighting force to be taken into account, made up of several battalions. Sources currently tell us of an approximate number of , or , men integrated into Brigade Map Cuba Bay of Pigs Map of Cuba with the location of the Bay of Pigs. Click to enlarge. © Desperta Ferro Ediciones Brigade was made up of seven battalions. The first of them were made up of paratroopers who would be launched to capture key points, nearby centers. The second, fifth and sixth battalions were infantry units. The third battalion was mechanized. Trucks and also five M armored cars were delivered to the brigade members. The th Battalion was a heavy weapons unit. Finally, the seventh battalion would remain in reserve and would not move from its base in Guatemala, awaiting the development of events.
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