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 ...

Editor’s note: This story was originally published on April 17, 2025. A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On April 17, 1961, some 1,400 CIA-trained Cuban ...

A new installment of “Lessons Learned” is now out. This week I discuss the Bay of Pigs invasion, which began on April 17, 1961. In the video, I look at the mistakes made before and during the invasion ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...