Bay of Pigs Invasion

In April of 1961, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) supported and trained a group of Cuban refugees to invade Cuba, unfortunately the foray failed. Inside seventy-two hours of the initial assault, isolated from re-supply, the nearly two thousand American troops ran out of ammunition and were beleaguered by Cuban militia and army units. While President John Fitzgerald Kennedy publicly took responsibility for the events, investigations verified that the blame should have been placed exclusively in the …

…it is quite apparent that errors by the United States supported Castro's Communization of Cuba. The failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion happened due to misinformation and miscommunication, and the result was a rise in already present hostility during the height of the Cold War. Over three decades later, the original target and objective of that invasion, Fidel Castro, is still empowered and the American government is still striving to remove him of power.