Bay of Pigs: 40 Years After (conference)
Bay of Pigs: 40 Years After was an international conference and reunion in Havana, Cuba, 22-24 March 2001. It was held shortly before the 40th anniversary of the Bay of Pigs Invasion.
Conference
The conference was co-sponsored by Universidad de La Habana (University of Havana), Centro de Estudios sobre Estados Unidos, Instituto de Historia de Cuba, Centro de Investigaciones Históricas de la Seguridad del Estado; Centro de Estudios sobre America, and the US-based National Security Archive. It commenced on Thursday 22 March 2001, at the Hotel Palco, Palacio de Convenciones, La Habana.[1][2][3]
On 24 March, following the formal conference, many of the delegates and observers travelled by road to Australia sugar mill, Playa Larga, and Playa Girón, the site of the initial landing in the invasion. A documentary film was made of that trip, titled Cuba: The 40 Years War, released on DVD in 2002.[4]
Delegates
Cuba delegates
Academics
- Tomas Diaz
- Angel Jimenez Gonzales
- Jorge Hernandez
- Rosa Lopez
- Jose Luis Mendez
- Juan Carlos Rodriguez
- Juan Vela Valdes
Government/combatants
- Ricardo Alarcon
- Efigenio Ameijeiras
- Israel Bejar
- Jose Buajasan
- Enrique Carreras (pilot)
- Fidel Castro
- Abelardo Colume
- Pedro Europesa
- Alberto Ferdey
- José Ramón Fernández
- Angel Jiminez
- Carlos Lechuga
- Roberto Million
- Joel Pardo
- Samuel Rodiles Planas
- Ramiro Valdez Menendez
- Anibel Velez
US delegates
US Academics/Journalists
- Max Azicri
- Thomas S. Blanton
- James G. Blight
- Philip Brenner
- Jorge Dominguez
- Piero Gleijeses
- James G. Hershberg
- P. Terrence Hopmann
- Peter Kornbluh
- Saul Landau
- William M. LeoGrande
- John E. Nolan
- Julia Swats
- Julia Sweig
US Government
- Richard N. Goodwin
- Samuel Halpern
- Robert Reynolds
- Wayne S. Smith
- Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
Combatants
- Roberto Carballo
- Mario Cabello
- Alfredo Duran
- Luis Tornes
Observers
- Jim Burroughs
- Jon Elliston
- Eric Hamburg
- Haynes Johnson
- Alexandra Schlesinger
- Daniel Schorr
- Jean Kennedy Smith
- Sharon Waxman
Notes
- ^ NSA press release, 23 March 2001 Bay of Pigs: 40 Years After
- ^ Melaragno, Peter conference
- ^ Melaragno, Peter conference timeline
- ^ Melaragno, Peter Cuba: The 40 Years War (documentary)
- ^ NSA delegates (NSA)
- ^ Melaragno, Peter delegates (Melaragno)