emigrants landed in cuba's play of pigs so quiet here all the superior forces of fidel castro stopped their offensive by next day the attempt to seize power fails. the bay of pigs was a disaster. it was poorly done. and can of the had stopped the. at stopped. the navy from giving support i mean it was strictly. they're the real rebellious force that when n. which was a bad bad move on the part account the place. ever out of though was only twenty when the bay of pigs battle took place little has changed since then. he hasn't been here for forty years but he had no difficulty finding the place where the american send forces landed. the government forces forward for every millimeter of land after the battle was over one revolutionary soldier wrote. on the sand to mount the victory. a bad look at how i and the most powerful u.s. warship the houston we were sitting over there. it carried a lot of weapons and foodstuffs. fidel arrived here in a tank with a hundred millimeter gun he fired four or five times at that ship sank and it tilted and sank this is how we achieved what we wanted. later the military museum was opened in the bay of pigs devoted to the le

that ended up and was known later as bay of pigs. >> host: you were involved in that. >> guest: yes. i am number 22 of the bay of pigs invasion. i was sent back into cuba as a radio operator to send back information, in other words, intelligence to the u.s. on what was going on before thethe invasion.be and everything that theyhey promised and said was going tos be done on our behalf was simply betrayed. that included the invasion. >> host: now, what did your family do in cuba prior to your coming over to the states? >> guest: my father used to work for a company, sugar sales, they were a u.s. company in cuba that, you know, was in the sugar industry.ug in the island he was vice president of that company, andel fidel castro coming to power was something that we didn't like at all. >> host: lily prellezo, tell us your background.our >> guest: well, i was also born in cuba, and i came to the united states when i was 4 years old. and it's an interesting story because my father was involved inin the counterrevolution, so v brothers and sisters, my older brothers and sisters had already co

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because the watergate burglars, the four cubans and the two other -- they were all part of the failed bay of pigs adventure, and they have a lot of anger and bitterness, that though they messed up just about everything they did and in ways i didn't know before, this is a very sinister operation on two levels. watergate was not an event. it wasn't even the event, the famous break in of june 17. watergate was a mentality that permeated the nixon presidency. i think there's fair evidence that nixon brought this mentality to the presidency if you look at his earlier life and career. the second month after he was in office, he instructed aids to set up a secret investigative unit inside the white house paid for by outside and therefore illegal fund. now, think about it. we have to stand back. wait a minute, a with president is setting up a secret investigative unit inside the white house? the idea was to get the goods, a frequently used expression by nixon, on his perceive enemies. nixon perceived a lot of enemies, and the goons first # assignment was to tail senator ted kennedy everywhere because nix

those were only words.ow that ended up in what was latery called bay of pigs. >> host: you were involved in that? >> guest: yes. i was sent back into cuba as a radio operator to send back information, intelligence to the u.s. on what was going on before the invasion.sion and everything that theyised promised and said wuss going to be done in our behalf was simply betrayed. the that included the ip vegas. >>st -- invasion. >> host: now, what did yourto family i do prior to you coming to the states? >> my father worked in sugar sales. they were a u.s. company. the irony was the president of that company, and fidel castro coming to power was something that we didn't like at all. >> host: lily prellezo, tell us your background. >> guest: well, i was also born in cuba, and i came to the united states when i was 4 years old. and it's an interesting story because my father was involved in the counterrevolution, so my brothers and sisters, my older brothers and sisters had already come here, but my mother wanted to get me and my little sister out. so she actually put us on a by plane by ourselve

there was a time, i'd say about the time of the bay of pigs there wasn't -- the federal government wasn't engaged in flood insurance. all of the property and casualty flood insurance in america was privately provided in the marketplace because we know what free enterprise does. if there's a demand somebody will come up with a business idea to supply that demand. and so that was going on in the early part of the 1960's until the federal government decided that really they needed to get in and compete with that a little bit. and so they set up the federal flood insurance program. and what did they do? they drove out all of the private sector competition. and today if you're worried about your house being flooded or your factory being flodded, you have to buy flood insurance from the federal government. and in order for them to compete with the private market they passed legislation that if there was a real estate loan under a federal bank they were insurance. so they wired in a customer base and they set the premium rates and they drove everybody out of the flood insurance industry, and whi

invite the peace corps their countries, it happened in a way -- it happened in the wake of the bay of pigs, one of the worst foreign policy disasters that had befallen this country in recent times. today here we are again at a similar point. i think of the idealism and the goodwill and the cultural sensitivity that the -- that we were taught in thepeace corps and how it echoed all over this country. not only with us who are peace corps volunteers, but our families. in my case, both parents came to visit me. my sister came. everybody in my family was affected by my two years in columb. my sister became a spanish major. we made friends from all over the world, and i think that that has happened and you cannot have been a peace corps volunteer and lived the life on the ground that we all lived all over the world, and have been a part anything that has been in the helines in the last few days. it just doesn't exist that way. and i'm sorry that some of those lessons are being lost. i wanted to remember -- sargent shriver has been responsible for giving so many of us our greatest moments in life

that ended up and known later as bay of pigs. >> you were involved with that? >> yeah. i was sent back into cuba as a radio operator to send back information. in other words, intelligence to the u.s. on what was going on before the invasion, and everything they promised and said was going to be done on our behalf was simply betrayed. that included the invasion. >> now, what did your family do in cuba prior to your coming over to the states? >> my father used to work for a company, sugar sales, they were a u.s. company in cuba that, you know, was in the sugar industry. the ironny was fidel castro coming to power was something that we didn't like, like at all. >> lily prellezo, tell us your background. >> i was born in cuba and came to the united states when i was 4 years old. my father was involved in the counterrevolution, so my older brothers and sisters had already come here, but my mother wanted me and my little sister out and put us on a plane by ourselves. i was 4 and she was 2. >> is that peter pan? >> no before that. that was 1960 but it was urgent that she had t