Brigade 2506 Brigade 2506 Brigade 2506 (Brigada Asalto 2506) was the name given to a CIA-sponsored group of Cuban exiles formed in 1960 to attempt the military overthrow of the Cuban government headed by Fidel Castro. It carried out the abortive Bay of Pigs Invasion landings in Cuba on 17 April 1961. In May 1960, the CIA began to recruit anti-Castro Cuban exiles in the Miami area. For most recruits, infantry training was carried out at a CIA-run base code-named "JMTrax" near Retalhuleu in the Sierra Madre on the Pacific coast of Guatemala. In November 1960, with Gregorio Aguilar Matteo spearheading training
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