Bay of Pigs: Lázaro Cárdenas wanted to defend Cuba in 1961

Given that it is 50 years since the ill-fated, idiotic undertaking known as Bay of Pigs, the Cuban embassy in Mexico City in a celebration reminded the audience that Lázaro Cárdenas del Río himself, Mexico's progressive president 1934-1940, wanted to form a brigade of volunteers to help Cuba repel the CIA-organized invasion of batistanos, mercenaries, and general thugs, though the invasion attempt ended in failure less than three days later.

It certainly is an image worth pondering: El tata Cárdenas, himself a fighter in Mexico's revolution, fighting on a Cuban beach - presumably with a treinta-treinta.