Why did the Bay of Pigs Invasion Fail?

by Panzer
Who is failing?
I’m Mr. Beat
Well, I’ve failed many times in my life. Like when I failed to
put sunscreen on when I went to Miami recently.
However, I didn’t fail to go to the Brigade 2506 Museum and Library while in Miami,
the official place to honor the memory of the group of Cuban exiles who attempted to
overthrow the dictator Fidel Castro 63 years ago. But yeah, that attempt was a failure.
For the few Americans who know about what we now call the Bay of Pigs Invasion, the only thing they
know about it was that it was a failure. In this video, I'm going to tell you WHY it was a failure,
and you better just, like, listen, because if you don’t I will fail you.
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This is Cuba. Well, this is Cuba today. THIS is Cuba on a map. Oh
look that at. Not that far from the United States. Just 90 miles,
or 145 kilometers apart at the shortest distance between the two.
THIS is Cuba in the 1950s. It was during this decade that Cuba went through a big revolution,
ultimately leading to THIS dude, the dictator Fulgencio Batista, getting kicked out of power.
Even though he was a dictator, the United States government had supported Batista and was not happy
he was kicked out of power. Yeah the United States government has sadly supported many dictators
over the years. But…Cuba’s next dictator they did NOT support. So hey, that’s progress. THIS dude,
Fidel Castro, ultimately became the new dictator, and after initially trying to work with him,
the U.S. government changed their minds when it was clear he was restricting civil
liberties, abandoning democracy, and…most importantly…implementing a command economy
in the country. In fact, Castro’s attacks on both political freedoms and economic freedoms led to
around 200,000 Cubans fleeing the country for the United States…specifically nearby South Florida.
If you want to learn more about what we today call the Cuban Revolution, by the way, the
Casual Historian has a couple videos he recently released about it over on his channel. (turn) Oh,
and those videos feature quotes by Dwight Eisenhower, read by a mysterious voice.
One of those who fled Cuba was Dr. Eduardo Zayas-Bazán.
at Le on the Batista you had a market economy and there was opposition newspaper opposition
TV stations opposition radio stations on the castal by the middle of 1960
everything had had been confiscated by the government there was no newspapers
that were not pro-Castro he had taken over all of the television channels and all of
the other means of communication so that was part of the reason why I joined the underground and in
September of 1960 I left Cuba because I knew that there was uh the makings of an invasion
By the time Zayas-Bazán had arrived in Florida, the Central Intelligence Agency, or CIA,
was already researching ways to assassinate Castro. And they tried to assassinate him,
boy did they try, often in…CREATIVE ways. They spiked cigars with poison and sent them to him
hoping he’d smoke them. They planned on packing a seashell full of explosives hoping he’d pick it
up when he went diving. They tried to contaminate one of Castro’s diving suits with a flesh-eating