Bay of Pigs Museum awaits Trump christening
by Abraham Mahshie
| May 24, 2020 12:01 AM
HIALEAH GARDENS, Florida — Cuban flags hang from the walls and model planes seem to float in the atrium as bright Florida sunshine pours into the Hialeah Gardens Museum Honoring Brigade 2506, a memorial to the 1,200 CIA-trained Cuban exiles who stormed Cuba’s shores in the ill-fated Bay of Pigs invasion of April 1961.
“Of the 106 who died, only 67 died in combat and the rest, how did they die?†said Felix Rodriguez, 79, to the Washington Examiner in a three-hour Spanish-language interview in his thick Cuban accent Thursday.
The Bay of Pigs veteran and famed CIA operative proceeded to describe every instance of death: on boats, in planes, defending safe houses, or at the hands of Fidel Castro’s henchmen.
“There were some who are recorded as having died in battle but who were executed when taken prisoner,†he said, noting the Cubans had 4,000 to 5,000 casualties.
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