Cuba under Fidel Castro Cuba and overthrow Castro; the plan resulted in the Bay of Pigs Invasion in April 1961. On 15 April, CIA-supplied B-26's bombed three Cuban military airfields; the U.S. announced that the perpetrators were defecting Cuban air force pilots, but Castro exposed these claims as false flag misinformation. Fearing invasion, he ordered the arrest of between 20,000 and 100,000 suspected counter-revolutionaries, publicly proclaiming that "What the imperialists cannot forgive us, is that we have made a Socialist revolution under their noses". This was his first announcement that the government was socialist. The CIA and Democratic Revolutionary Front had based a 1,400-strong
An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris journal, then in the 10/18 series and finally reedited by Christian Bourgois. "HTMLGIANT"s Lily Hoang reviewed it favorably stating "Georges Perec is charming, the most charming man I will never meet, and "An Attempt" is yet another charming example of his charm." An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris, (French: "Tentative d'épuisement d'un lieu parisien") is a short (roughly 60 pages) book by Georges Perec written in October 1974 and published in 1975. It is a collection of observations which Perec wrote as he sat in Saint-Sulpice Square in Paris. Rather