Havana, Cuba —
Cuba’s president says his nation does not want war with the United States, but he vows that, if attacked, Cubans would defeat American forces.
Dressed in military fatigues, Miguel Díaz-Canel addressed a crowd of government supporters commemorating the 65th anniversary Thursday of the start of the US-backed Bay of Pigs invasion. The failed attempt by a CIA-trained force of Cuban exiles to oust Fidel Castro prompted the Cuban revolutionary leader to openly declare his support for socialism for the first time, setting up a Cold War-era standoff with the US that endures to this day.
The 1961 debacle at the Bay of Pigs, one of the CIA’s most conspicuous failures, has been…