Since the triumph of the Cuban Revolution in January 1959, plans and actions began to be conceived in the United States with a view to preventing the development of the revolutionary process.

Even in the month of January 1959, US agencies and publications unleashed a defamatory campaign about what was happening in Cuba when revolutionary justice was applied against war criminals.

In the course of the following months, particularly after the promulgation of the Agrarian Reform Law in Cuba in May 1959, the actions already aimed at trying to destroy the Revolution, which had affected the interests of US companies in our country, intensified.

In October 1959, for example, vandalistic actions took place, such as the attack on Havana by small planes manned by counterrevolutionary elements that had left the US territory, which caused deaths and injuries among the population of the Cuban capital.

Also on March 4th, 1960, in the port of Havana, the French ship La Coubre exploded as a result of a treacherous attack.

The same year the United States unleashed a series of economic aggressions with the objective of asphyxiating Cuba.

Likewise, intense diplomatic plans were carried out through the Organization of American States in an attempt to isolate Cuba.

As early as March 1960, the United States began to organize a brigade of mercenaries to carry out a military attack against Cuba. 

And in correspondence with its aggressive policy against the Cuban Revolution, on April 15th, 196l airplanes bombed several Cuban airports from the territory of Nicaragua.

This was done with the purpose of destroying the few and old airplanes that Cuba had for its defense.

Already at that moment a mercenary brigade that had departed from Puerto Cabezas, in Nicaragua, on April 13, was on its way to our territory.

On April 16th, while speaking at the mourning farewell ceremony for the victims of the air raid perpetrated the day before, Commander in Chief Fidel Castro proclaimed the socialist character of the Cuban Revolution and urged the people to fight the invaders relentlessly as soon as they tried to go into Cuban territory.

 On April 17th, in the area of Playa Giron, the mercenaries landed. Immediately members of the Armed Forces, the National Revolutionary Police and the National Revolutionary Militias fought without ceasing and in only 65 hours the invaders were defeated.

Playa Giron took on a significant connotation in the history of Cuba, America and the world.

The Cuban people demonstrated their commitment in fighting in defense of their Revolution and the cause of socialism, a determination they maintain today more than 60 years after that transcendental victory.