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Caribbean & Central America - April 2006 (ISSN 1741-4458)
CUBA: Castro fired up on Bay of Pigs anniversary
President Fidel Castro was at his belligerent best during a two-hour speech on 19 April, the anniversary of the failed 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion (known as Playa Girón in Cuba after the beach where the landing took place).
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