Cuba’s president says his nation does not want war with the United States, but he vows that, if attacked, Cubans would defeat American forces.
Dressed in military fatigues, Miguel Díaz-Canel addressed a crowd of government supporters commemorating the 65th anniversary Thursday of the start of the US-backed Bay of Pigs invasion. The failed attempt by a CIA-trained force of Cuban exiles to oust Fidel Castro prompted the Cuban revolutionary leader to openly declare his support for socialism for the first time, setting up a Cold War-era standoff with the US that endures to this day.
The 1961 debacle at the Bay of Pigs, one of the CIA’s most conspicuous failures, has been enshrined ever since by Cuban officials as the David vs. Goliath moment that cemented support for Castro’s revolution.
Referencing growing tensions with the Trump administration, Díaz-Canel told the crowd: “We have to be ready to resist serious threats, including military aggression. We do not seek it, but it is our duty to prepare to avert it, and, should it prove inevitable, to win it.”
“As long as there is a woman and a man willing to give their lives for the revolution, we will be victorious,” Díaz-Canel added.
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