A Bay of Pigs veteran and leader of Miami's Cuban American community is among the casualties in the Florida condo building collapse. Juan Mora was one of hundreds of Cuban exiles who took part in a CIA-funded operation to overthrow Fidel Castro in 1961.
and the Bay of Pigs Museum it houses, museum board member Humberto Lopez said Friday. Mora was “always trying to help,” organizing events, writing editorials about the invasion and emailing with other members of the veterans group, Lopez recalled.
Mora Jr. was a manager for Morton Salt’s road salt business in Chicago, according to a close friend there, Matthew Kaade, who graduated with him from Loyola University in Chicago in 2011. They lived in tents, eating food that was sometimes spoiled and drinking river water as they learned to use machine guns, grenades, bazookas and mortars.“We were so convinced about what we were doing to go free Cuba that nobody complained,” Diaz Arguelles remembered.
“There was no time to get scared,” said Diaz Arguelles, whose boat sank after hitting a reef, forcing him to swim ashore with a mortar tube and two boxes of ammo.
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