What are the lasting effects of the Bay of Pigs invasion?

Fifty years ago April 17th, the United States launched an ill-conceived invasion of Cuba to topple the regime of Fidel Castro.

The events of that week stand as a hallmark embarassment in the history of American power. It made the government and the CIA seem incompetent, and burnished the image of the young Castro.

Whether it's in the stories told by second or third-generation Cuban exiles and immigrants, how history is taught, or how American foreign policy is made, what lasting effects of the Bay of Pigs invasion do you see today?

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