""The plan," she says, "was to establish a beachhead and form a transitional government.""
""It showed the people that we should not fear an empire," Limonta del Pozo says."
""Expansionism is in their veins. We are talking about historical ideas and strategies designed more than 200 years ago,""
Playa Giron was the site of the failed 1961 U.S.-backed Bay of Pigs invasion aimed at toppling Fidel Castro, and the Giron Museum displays tanks and artillery used to repel the assault. Cuban officials present the invasion as a pivotal military defeat for the United States in the Americas and a lesson that Cubans need not fear U.S. power. The Monroe Doctrine is portrayed as a nearly 200-year-old framework for U.S. hemispheric dominance, linked to actions from the Louisiana Purchase onward. President Trump’s intervention in Venezuela has revived Cuban fears of renewed U.S. interference. Cuban leaders frame U.S. expansionism as historically ingrained.
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