After the attack on Cuban airports and the historic burial of the victims, the invasion to the island financed by the United States began 61 years ago at Playa Girón, in the center-south of the country.

Pluto Operation, approved by President Dwight D. Eisenhower on March 17^th, 1960 with the close participation of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the U.S. Army, with the purpose of overthrowing the revolutionary process led by Fidel Castro.

For this reason, an army of exiles was recruited, trained, and geared in Guatemala, among them former figureheads of dictator Fulgencio Batista (1952-1958), including those responsible for crimes against the Cuban people.

The invasion was planned with air-sea landing to conquer a beachhead in the southern Pigs Bay and establish a government there previously appointed by Washington.

That act of war was accompanied by others of domestic subversion, armed infiltrations, sabotage, and criminal actions.

In the early hours of April 17^th, Operation Pluto, inherited by President John F. Kennedy, was a go. Brigade 2506, made up of 1,500 troops, had departed from Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua, aboard five U.S. ships.

The combats were bloody and the B-26 bombings deployed against the island were criminal, which reported more than 150 deaths and hundreds of wounded, according to witnesses and people who experienced first-hand the clash with the enemy.

Less than 70 hours had passed since the beginning of the invasion when Fidel Castro arrived on tank before the last stronghold of attackers in Playa Girón on April 19^th.

Cuban forces took some 1,200 prisoners, most of them Cuban exiles, and on April 24^th, 1961, President Kennedy acknowledged the involvement of his government in the events.

This would be the first great military defeat of U.S. imperialism in Latin America and since then Washington designed new strategies to end the young and triumphant Revolution only 90 miles away.

In fact, on November 30^th, 1961, the U.S. president approved Operation Mongoose, the largest subversive plan orchestrated against Cuba, responsible for nearly five thousand acts of sabotage and terrorist acts on Cuba in less than 10 months.

Some members of that assault brigade 2506 are still alive, they participated in other aggressive actions against the country that saw hem born, they supported President Donald Trump (2017-2021) in his economic war of suffocation against Cuba and 61 years later, they are still waiting unsuccessfully the fall of the revolutionary government.