Le 17 avril 1961, débarquement de 1500 exilés cubains entraînés par la C.I.A.. Un des échecs les plus gênants pour les États-Unis... Opération planifiée sous Eisenhower et lancée sous Kennedy (après modification).
En 2011, les avis différent sur cet évènement, surtout si vous interrogez des cubains et des américains. Même entre cubains, on n'arrive pas à faire l'unanimité... Topo dans le NY Times de ce matin. L'auteure est une cubaine et l'article provient de la Havane.
"In Cuba, we do not call it the Bay of Pigs. Instead we call it the Battle of Playa Girón, after the beach where the main battle was fought. As always, there are two ways of talking about what happened: Mercenaries (or patriots), under orders from (with the support of) the C.I.A., attacked (tried to liberate) Cuba, at a place called Playa Girón (Bay of Pigs).
“We can’t even agree on the name of the place,” says Adrian, who is a historian. Or its geography. For some people, it’s a beach. For others, a bay. While people here celebrate the defeat of an imperialist’s mercenaries, in Miami the survivors of the 2506 Brigade reconvene to commemorate the day Cuban patriots fought against a tyrant in the name of democracy and freedom.
Between sips of hot coffee mixed with ground split peas, which is the cheapest drink you can buy on the streets here, Adrian talks about the contradictions of Cuban history, beginning with the revolutionaries who came with Fidel Castro on a yacht from Mexico in 1956 through the civil war that followed the departure of the dictator Fulgencio Batista. “Many people died during those 10 years,” he says. “We don’t know the real history of that period, because everyone wants to push their version of the story, hoping that theirs is the only one that gets told.”"
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/opinion/17monica.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha212
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