Due to Kennedy inheriting a CIA-backed scheme to topple Fidel Castro from power by invading Cuba with anticommunist exiles, on April 17, 1961 he would launch the Bay of Pigs Invasion. Kennedy would choose to not have direct intervention to avoid potential Soviet War, which, alongside inferior aircraft and lack of popular uprising greeting the invaders, resulted in the anti-Castroites surrendering. The US would be humiliated by a missed bombing, and would later "ransom" $62 million worth of American pharmaceutical drugs and other humanitarian supplies for repossession of the invaders from Cuban jails.

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