Marco Rubio To Speak At Bay Of Pigs Invasion Anniversary
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MIAMI (CBSMiami/AP) — Sen. Marco Rubio is set to honor the 1,500 veterans of the 55th anniversary of the failed Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba at an event in Miami.
He is set to speak at 5 p.m. Sunday at the Brigade 2506 Monument, a memorial to those killed in the April 17, 1961, attack. The U.S.-sponsored invasion sought to topple Fidel Castro.
"They knew they would be badly outnumbered and that they faced extraordinary odds, and yet these men stormed the beaches of Playa Giron at the Bay of Pigs," Rubio said in a Senate floor speech Thursday. "They did it for what at the time was their country, Cuba. They did it for their families. They did it for freedom itself."
Rubio dropped out of the presidential race on March 15.