Historydraft LogoHistorydraft Logo
Historydraft
beta
Historydraft Logo
Historydraft
beta

Bay of Pigs Invasion

The armed uprising

Sunday Apr 16, 1961
Las Villas, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba

On 16 April, Merardo Leon, Jose Leon, and 14 others staged an armed uprising at Las Delicias Estate in Las Villas, with only four surviving. Leonel Martinez and three others took to the countryside.


<