CIA activities in Nicaragua as well as rebels and Americans who work with them." Five American Contra supporters who worked with the rebels confirmed the charges, noting that "two Cuban-Americans used armed rebel troops to guard cocaine at clandestine airfields in northern Costa Rica. They identified the Cuban-Americans as members of the 2506 Brigade, an anti-Castro group that participated in the 1961 Bay of Pigs attack on Cuba. Several also said they supplied information about the smuggling to U.S. investigators." One of the Americans "said that in one ongoing operation, the cocaine is unloaded from planes at rebel airstrips and taken to an Atlantic
Workers' Central Union of Cuba Workers' Central Union of Cuba The Workers Central Union of Cuba (CTC) is the trade union federation in Cuba. It originated as the "Confederación de Trabajadores de Cuba" (Confederation of Cuban Workers) in 1939 and changed its name to the Central Union of Cuban Workers in 1961. The CTC unites 19 sectoral unions, organised in more than 81,000 workplaces, with elected municipal, provincial and national committees for each union, with all Cuban workers belonging to this trade union federation. The CTC also has a weekly newspaper, "Trabajadores". In the 1930s, the Cuban labor movement declined after an unsuccessful general strike