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Conversations about sport to avoid with Americans? Don 't mention the versatile Cubans who have taken the filthy Yankee baseball game to their extremely talented hearts. In fact don 't talk about the Cubans at all. There is no ironic admiration. No "that Fidel, he certainly outlasted 9 presidents eh? "The Bay of Pigs ...now that would have been a film. It had everything from the Magnificent 7, peasants joining together to fight Mr Big, gringoes, etc. but also from the Godfather ...high finance, gambling, the mafia ousted, a bit of Dr Strangelove ...international intrigue and ghastly errors on both sides.
The CIA had put all the ammunition for the venture, on one ship. Castro only just managed to sink it, with one of his few planes left. A journalist noticed that the plane the US said had attacked the Cuban airfields, had its gun barrels still taped over. The hapless spokesman was unable to explain and the CIA involvement became obvious. This was not carried out by stalwart anti-Castro Cubans but by the Good Old US of A.
Kennedy was caught out. Just how many sub plots were there? Even the exiles would have had their heroes, who had been as brave as you can be fighting tanks using artillery with no shells. Castro then makes a stupid pact with Khrushchev and the missile crisis turned Kennedy into a hero again. The film that never was. However, do not discuss this, especially in rich-exile rich Florida, where a lot of Brits now go on holiday.
