50 years after Bay of Pigs
U.S. continues failed attempts against Cuban revolution
By
Teresa Gutierrez
Published Apr 20, 2011 7:55 PM
Youth celebrate 50th anniversary of Bay of Pigs victory.
Photo: Granma
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Fifty years ago, on April 16, 1961, Cuban Commander in Chief Fidel Castro
declared the socialist nature of the Cuban Revolution.
Beloved around the world to this day, Fidel stated in 1961: “This is what
they cannot forgive us ... that we have made a Socialist Revolution right under
the nose of the United States. ... Comrades, workers and farmers, this is the
Socialist and democratic Revolution of the people, by the people and for the
people. And for this Revolution ... we are willing to give our
lives.”
It was a momentous development that shook the world. Revolutionaries everywhere
triumphed in the victory, and all those in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and
Latin America who lived wretchedly under the yoke of imperialism felt
tremendous possibilities for their own liberation struggles.
It was a historic step forward for workers and oppressed worldwide — one
that resonates today.
Fidel’s proclamation was made as Cubans paid their respects to those who
had been killed the day before during the U.S. bombing of a Cuban airbase, an
attack that was a prelude to the Playa Girón (Bay of Pigs) incident.
The Bay of Pigs was a military attempt by the U.S. government to destroy the
Cuban Revolution so that imperialism could restore its domination over Cuba.
The military attack failed and was a major defeat for imperialism.
Counterrevolutionary efforts continue
U.S. imperialism has not and will never reconcile itself to the building of
socialism at its doorstep. Since the triumph of the Cuban Revolution, the U.S.
has never stopped its attempts to sabotage and undermine the Revolution.
Overtly and covertly, it has carried out countless acts of aggression —
including the longest economic and political blockade in U.S. history as well
as numerous assassination attempts against Fidel — all aimed at
destabilizing and overturning the Revolution.
On March 22 the Permanent Mission of Cuba to the United Nations issued a
damning press release, announcing that a series of testimonial documentaries
recently shown in Cuba revealed current “direct connections of
counterrevolutionary individuals in the Island with the U.S.”
The four documentaries — “The Empire’s Pawns,”
“Trues and Principles,” “Cyberwar” and “Well Paid
Lies” — are a study in counterrevolutionary subterfuge.
The documentaries revealed U.S. plans to introduce illegal communication and
spying systems on the island and how the U.S. Agency for International
Development serves as a cover for anti-Cuba CIA activities.
USAID, the documentary demonstrated, sets out to “fabricate social
leaders ... who try to influence youth and academics.”
The press release states that “in ‘The Empire’s Pawns,’
Moises Rodríguez and Carlos Serpa, who for a long time lived side by side
with factions that operate on the Island under direct orders of terrorists who
live in the U.S., revealed evidence of how the so-called dissidents or alleged
advocates of the human rights in Cuba received money directly from the
U.S.”
The U.S. Interests Section in Havana, which is equivalent to an embassy, was
exposed once again as playing a role of sabotage, similar to its role in other
countries the U.S. wants to undermine.
For example, Rodríguez explained receiving instructions from U.S.
diplomats to plot against the Cuban government. He was also sent to Miami,
where he held meetings with infamous terrorists, among them Luis Posada
Carriles.
Serpa was instructed by anti-Cuba elements to spread false information about
Cuba through Radio Martí and other U.S. media.
In “Trues and Principles,” Dalexis Gonzalez Madruga, a graduate
student in telecommunication engineering at the Jose Antonio Echeverria
University, showed how he was contacted by U.S. agents to “illegally
introduce sophisticated equipment and install a network feasible to transmit
directly to the U.S. Interests Section in Havana.”
The documentary showed how equipment was hidden in surfing equipment and how
major communication advances are used by the U.S., not to help economic and
social development, but for destabilizing Cuba.
In “Cyberwar” the creation of cyber-dissidents or
cyber-mercenaries, in an attempt to subvert order and create confusion among
the Cuban population, was revealed. A website called “Cyber Dissidents on
the Web” was created to organize a media campaign to defame Cuba by
distorting Cuban reality, attacking socialism and slandering Cuban leaders.
Bloggers at the website have all been linked to the U.S. Interests Section in
Havana.
Despite an intense, well-orchestrated, constant, unremitting campaign to
undermine the Cuban Revolution, U.S. imperialism has failed. It failed in 1961
and it is failing in 2011. The Cuban Revolution stands firm and steadfast not
only because of its dedicated and knowing masses and its solid revolutionary
leadership, but because of the overwhelming support the Cuban Revolution has
earned worldwide.
The masses of the world who face untold misery and hardship cheer the Cuban
Revolution, knowing that Cuba is not perfect, but its free education and health
care are leaps and bounds ahead of the starvation and death the majority of the
oppressed face. “Long live the Cuban Revolution” was the cry in
1961 heard around the world — and it remains today.
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