Rafael Montalvo, president of the Brigade 2506 Veterans Association, said the museum will also educate visitors about the harm caused by decades of Communist dictatorship.

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On April 17, 1961, some 1,400 CIA-trained Cuban exiles launched the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in an attempt to topple ...

South Florida’s Cuban community rejects dialogue with the Castro regime on the anniversary of the failed 1961 invasion ...

Cuba’s president says his nation does not want war with the United States, but he vows that, if attacked, Cubans would defeat American forces. Dressed in military fatigues, Miguel Díaz-Canel addressed ...

MIAMI (AP) — Manuel Portuondo was still a teenager in 1960 when his family, like thousands of others, fled Cuba for Miami, following the culmination of the Cuban Revolution a year earlier. Soon after, ...