2.5 quotes history
Kitty Kelly - Journalist/ historian
‘Kennedy was haunted by the Bay of Pigs invasion but carried the country through the Cuban Missile Crisis.’
Lillian Guerra - Historian
“Willingly and even joyfully, millions of Cubans surrendered their rights… most Cubans hailed the collapse of these rights as the only way to prevent dissent from opening the floodgates of counter-revolution.”
Castro in a letter to Kruschev - (October 26, 1962) after invasion
‘if they manage to carry out an invasion of Cuba … then that would be the moment to eliminate this danger forever’.