... to their landing zone at Playa Gir •n. Surrounded by Castro's forces some began to surrender while others fled into the hills. In total 114 men were killed in the slaughter while thirty-six died as prisoners in Cuban cells. Others were to live out twenty years or more in those cells as men plotting to topple the government of Castro ... beach, and that if the exile force got into trouble, its members would simply melt into the countryside and become guerrillas, just as Castro had done . . . . As for senior White House aides, most of them disagreed with the plan as well, but Rusk says ...

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... is recalled through the memory of a child, which seems to undermine the horror of the Yankee exploitation. Colonel Lorenzo Gavilan leads the strikers into a brutal blood bath. The workers are slaughter and "become cut off all around like an onion being peeled by the insatiable and methodical shears of the machine guns."8 This also demonstrates another common theme in the "Boom ... , who all painstakingly dig through the trash looking for something to eat, something to sell, something to wear."18 The revolutionaries are forced to go into hiding at a old woman's house, which is characteriz...

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