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Central Australia is a curious name for this town which was essentially an ex-sugar mill which Castro used as his headquarters during the Bay of Pigs invasion. The mill is now a museum, which depicts (in typical pro-Castro rhetoric) the repelling of 1500 US-financed Cuban exiles during the 1961 attack schemed by Eisenhower and finally implemented by Kennedy. It's always fascinating, even when reading blatant propaganda, to be a US citizen reading the OTHER side's version of a US attack. How can you blame a country for defending itself against a larger power that wants to oust its government unilaterally? The rusted out engine of a shot down US plane providing air cover for the defeated US forces was particularly poignant.

Central Australia
La República de Cuba

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