1/1/1959

“JAN 1, 1959…Fidel Castro gives a victory speech from Santiago:this new revolution, he states, will not be like 1898, ‘when the North Americans cane and made themselves masters of our country.'”

“The Bay of Pigs Invasion/Playa Giron: A Chronology of Events,” The National Security Archive, NSArchive2.gwu.edu