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Playa Girón
:''Note: "Playa Girón" is also the title of a song included in the album "Días y Flores", by Silvio Rodriguez.'' Playa Girón (; "Girón beach") is a beach and village on the east bank of the Bahia de Cochinos (Bay of Pigs), which is located in the province of Matanzas, on the southern coast of Cuba. It is part of the municipality of Ciénaga de Zapata. Geography Playa Girón is located in one of the largest wetlands in the world, the Ciénaga de Zapata (Zapata Swamp). The adjoining village of Girón was named after the notorious French pirate Gilberto Giron (c.1604). History Bay of Pigs Invasion In April 1961, Playa Girón was one of two landing sites for seaborne forces of about 1,500 armed Cuban exiles in the Bay of Pigs Invasion, an American CIA-sponsored attempt to overthrow the new government of Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro. Over 72 hours, fighting took place in many parts of the Cienaga de Zapata, Playa Girón being the last remaining area occupied by the invade ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Días Y Flores
'' Días y Flores'' is the debut studio album by Cuban singer-songwriter Silvio Rodríguez, released in 1975. Content The album was censored in Francoist Spain. The track list was altered and the album was renamed to ''Te Doy una Canción''. The songs ''Santiago de Chile'' and the title track ''Días y Flores'' were omitted and were replaced by ''Madre'' and ''Te Doy una Canción''. With the end of the dictatorship, the two songs were added again, the new editions in Spain have thirteen songs. Similarly, the album was also censored in Chile, due to the regime of Augusto Pinochet. A cassette titled ''Te Doy una Canción'' circulated, which did not contain the songs ''Santiago de Chile'', ''Playa Girón'', ''Como esperando abril'' and ''Pequeña Serenata Diurna'', however it did include''Te Doy una Canción'' and a live version of ''Mariposas''. There is also a CD like the Spanish version, which adds ''Madre'' after ''Santiago de Chile'', and changes ''Días y flores'' for ''Te Doy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1962
Events January * January 1 – Western Samoa becomes independent from New Zealand. * January 3 – Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro for preaching communism. * January 8 – Harmelen train disaster: 93 die in the worst Dutch rail disaster. * January 9 – Cuba and the Soviet Union sign a trade pact. * January 12 – The Indonesian Army confirms that it has begun operations in West Irian. * January 13 – Albania allies itself with the People's Republic of China. * January 15 – Portugal abandons the U.N. General Assembly, due to the debate over Angola. * January 16 – A military coup occurs in the Dominican Republic. * January 19 – A counter-coup occurs in the Dominican Republic; the old government returns, except for the new president Rafael Filiberto Bonnelly. * January 22 – The Organization of American States suspends Cuba's membership; the suspension is lifted in 2009 (47 years later). * January 24 &ndash ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geography Of Cuba
Cuba is an island nation in the Caribbean Sea. Cuba's area is 110,860 km² (42,803 sq mi) including coastal and territorial waters with a land area of . This makes it the eighth-largest island country in the world. The main island (Cuba) has of coastline and of land borders—all figures including the U.S. Navy's Guantanamo Bay Naval Base. Cuba lies west of the North Atlantic Ocean, east of the Gulf of Mexico, south of the Straits of Florida, northwest of the Windward Passage, and northeast of the Yucatán Channel. The main island (Cuba), at , makes up most of the land areaStoner, K. Lynn.Cuba ''Encarta Online Encyclopedia''. 2005. 31 October 2009. and is the 17th-largest island in the world by land area. The island is long and across its widest points and across its narrowest points. The largest island outside the main island is the Isla de la Juventud (Isle of Youth) in the southwest, with an area of . Cuba is an archipelago of islands located in the Caribbean Sea, wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
