In the early hours of that April day, seven battalions with more than 1,500 mercenaries invaded Playa Girón, transported on five ships and protected by U.S. air power. This massive operation involved the deployment of 178 paratroopers with artillery support.

However, the U.S. had not anticipated the fighting capacity and reaction of the Cuban revolutionary army, which, although not large enough to be present at Playa Girón, responded fiercely to the invasion. In the counterattack, up to seven B-26 bombers escorting the invaders were hit by air defenses.

The revolutionaries also sank two invading assault ships, resulting in the loss of a large quantity of weaponry they were transporting for the invading forces on land. Before the day was over, the invaders, who had barely advanced 10 kilometers in their invasion due to the element of surprise, had lost the support of a dozen fighter-bombers and were isolated without air reinforcements.

The following day, a contingent of thousands upon thousands of Cuban revolutionary soldiers arrived as reinforcements. Artillery was deployed en masse along the entire battlefront, fiercely bombarding the invaders. This, combined with the ground offensive, encircled the invaders to such an extent that by midday the Cubans outnumbered them ten to one. Faced with this brutal and humiliating defeat, the US hastily dispatched several more B-26 bombers from Nicaragua. Some were hit, and others, witnessing the disaster and fearing they would be shot down, fled and returned to base.

The US defeat at the Bay of Pigs took on historical significance. The humiliation inflicted upon its mercenaries led the US to cowardly abandon the operation, leaving them stranded on Playa Girón to avoid associating the defeat with the empire. On April 19, the US mercenaries were crushed and retreated so decisively that they returned to the shore of Playa Girón.

Desperate at being abandoned by their master, the US, some attempted to escape in boats, while others hid in the undergrowth to avoid capture. Even in their cowardly attempts to flee and hide, 1,189 mercenary worms in US military uniforms were defeated by Cuban revolutionary troops. Immediately disarmed and captured, the Cuban revolutionary army seized all their weapons and ammunition, as well as 10 military trucks, 5 M-41 tanks, and military boats and barges.

Furthermore, Fidel Castro made the US pay for its invasion, exchanging its mercenaries for $53 million in the form of food, medicine, and infrastructure.Cuba humiliated them by forcing them to hand over their money to the Cuban Revolution, and the empire will never forgive them for that.

The crushing defeat of imperialism at the Bay of Pigs was the first for the US in Latin America; a small island of barely 7 million inhabitants defeated an entire empire. The invasion was overthrown in three days. The US thought it would achieve an easy victory at Playa Girón, but it hadn't counted on the Cubans being prepared beforehand and knowing, through intelligence sources, the plan the CIA had been preparing against the people and their young Revolution.

The CIA hadn't counted on the capacity for resistance of the Cuban people's militia, thousands of men and women who had nothing to lose, guerrillas from the poorest classes, who would rather die than have their freedom taken away and return to the Batista regime. Glory to the anti-imperialist Cuban people who defeated the US at the Bay of Pigs and who continue to resist US aggression 65 years later!

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