the Bay of Pigs
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- a bay on the south-west coast of Cuba, where in 1961 about 1 500 Cuban exiles, supported by the CIA, landed in an attempt to end the rule of Fidel Castro. The attempt failed, causing great embarrassment to the US President John F Kennedy and making Castro's position stronger than ever.
see also Cuban missile crisis猪湾:位于古巴西南海岸的一个海湾,1961年,在中央情报局的支持下,约有1500名古巴流亡者登陆那里,试图结束菲德尔·卡斯特罗的统治。这次尝试失败了,这给美国总统约翰·肯尼迪带来了极大的尴尬,并使卡斯特罗的立场比以往任何时候都要强大。