“The importance of Girón does not lie in the magnitude of the battle, of the combatants, of the heroic deeds that took place there; the great historical significance of Girón is not what happened, but rather what did not happen thanks to Girón!”
Speech given at the keynote ceremony for the Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the Bay of Pigs Victory held at the Karl Marx Theatre in Havana, April 19, 1986