Cuba Commemorates Failed Bay of Pigs Invasion

[Marcus Bryant]

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/world/americas/17cuba.html

[Marcus Bryant]

In a park, a group of men sipped rum from plastic cups — at 7:30 in the morning — and chatted more about baseball than anything else. A middle-aged man on a porch stood shirtless as marchers passed, feeding his menagerie of birds. A few women sat on a curb drinking water in exhaustion from a two-hour walk toward the plaza, they said, well before the proceedings began.

Still, a few handmade placards seemed to nod to the future.

“Efficiency,” said one, “and victory.”