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After midnight, in simultaneous landings at three beaches on the Bay of Pigs, 90 miles southeast of Havana (see map), the attackers went in with artillery, tanks and B-26 air support. Soon afterward, Castro's military duty officer at Jagüey Grande reported fighting on the beach. The choice of a landing place seemed to come as a surprise to a military expert of the Revolutionary Council, onetime Cuban Army Colonel Ramón Barqu...
...very narrow road and a railroad bed from the beach to Jagüey Grande," he said, "a distance of 24 miles, with swamp on both sides and mosquitoes, mosquitoes, mosquitoes. This swamp offers some advantages-you can't be flanked. But it makes no difference; you can be stopped easily enough." Nevertheless, the plan was to cut Cuba in two by stabbing quickly northward along the road and the railroad bed to the main east-west highway, and on to the northern coast...
Back to the Bay. But for all the messages about fish rising and rainbows flashing, the expected mass uprising failed to take place, and the tide of rebellion ran out. The airstrip at Jagüey Grande was seized, but when the first rebel B-26 came in to land, it hit unexpected ridges of sand that had drifted across the runway, and crashed. Paratroopers, dropped inland, were wiped out-few prisoners were taken. The invaders from the beach never quite reached Jagüey Grande. Obviously forewarned of the general area where the landing would take place ("Someone committed...
Intermittently, Trujillo proffered bits of the carrot to go with the whip. He reminded the church that he was building a $3,500,000 basilica and a $4,000,000 Catholic University in Higüey. He also warned that the church by inciting a rebellion against him was asking for a Castro. As the pressure built up and church attendance fell off under the Trujillo scrutiny, the decision was made to bend-or at least appear...
...Movement of the People and are organized in every province and major municipality. Using the techniques they learned with Castro, they fight him by breaking political prisoners out of jail, by derailing trains, shooting up militia patrols and triggering bombs at strategic points. M.R.P. men blacked out Camagüey for three days, went on to set off 13 blasts that knocked out main Havana power circuits for 20 hours...