50 year anniversary of the Bay of Pigs, La Habana, Cuba

April 17, 2011 Cuba is holding a rare
Communist Party congress this weekend that
coincides with the 50th anniversary
of the Bay of Pigs, a disaster for the United States,
but what Fidel Castro terms
a "victory over American imperialism."

Members of Fidel Castro's militia gather in Cuba's
Escambry Mountains during the ill-fated
"Bay Of Pigs" 1961 invasion.

Newsweek January 16, 1961 cover
asks: "Can They Survive?"
We sure know the answer 50 years later.