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“MAR 1-3, 1961: A bomb explodes in the Nobel Academy in the Vibora district [in Cuba], wounding seven students and a professor. In Matanzas a plane drops thousands of anti-Castro pamphlets over the city. In Santa Ana, Cidra, 17 kilometers from Matanzas, a plane drops live phosphorous over cane fields, hitting a house on the edge of the cane plantation. Three explosive devices go off in the capital.\u201d<\/p>\n

“The Bay of Pigs Invasion\/Playa Giron: A Chronology of Events,” The National Security Archive, NSArchive2.gwu.edu<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“MAR 1-3, 1961: A bomb explodes in the Nobel Academy in the Vibora district [in Cuba], wounding seven students and a professor. In Matanzas a plane drops thousands of anti-Castro pamphlets over the city. In Santa Ana, Cidra, 17 kilometers from Matanzas, a plane drops live phosphorous over cane fields, hitting a house on the […]<\/p>\n

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The bombs have the inscription \u2018Bristo Marines.\u2019 Another plane drops incendiary bombs on the cane fields in the refineries of Adelaida, Violeta,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "quotes"","block_context":{"text":"quotes","link":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/category\/quotes\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2002,"url":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/1960\/01\/12\/591121960\/","url_meta":{"origin":2149,"position":1},"title":"1\/12\/1960","author":"AmarkData","date":"January 12, 1960","format":false,"excerpt":"\"JAN 12, 1960: Throughout the month of January, sabotage and small bombing missions in Cuba increase in frequency. A plane drops incendiary bombs in the areas of Bainoa, Caraballo, and San Antonio de Rio Blanco. 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We were out of the loop in Ecuador, so we didn\u2019t know exactly when, but we knew it was starting on April 15, a Saturday, when two B-26 light bombers, these are World War II vintage twin-engine light\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "quotes"","block_context":{"text":"quotes","link":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/category\/quotes\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2532,"url":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/1961\/04\/01\/233411961\/","url_meta":{"origin":2149,"position":4},"title":"4\/1\/1961","author":"AmarkData","date":"April 1, 1961","format":false,"excerpt":"\u201dSo beginning the first of April [1961] they [Cuban revolutionary government] began rounding up thousands of people all over the island who they thought might just show support for the invasion when it did come. On the very day of the invasion, April 17, they arrested something like 35,000 people\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "quotes"","block_context":{"text":"quotes","link":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/category\/quotes\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2557,"url":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/1961\/03\/17\/2283171961\/","url_meta":{"origin":2149,"position":5},"title":"3\/17\/1961","author":"AmarkData","date":"March 17, 1961","format":false,"excerpt":"\"MAR 17, 1961: The New York Times reports that in the coming weeks simultaneous invasions will take place at different points in Cuba.\u201d \"The Bay of Pigs Invasion\/Playa Giron: A Chronology of Events,\" The National Security Archive, NSArchive2.gwu.edu","rel":"","context":"In "quotes"","block_context":{"text":"quotes","link":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/category\/quotes\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}