Red Zone Cuba, also known as Night Train to Mundo Fine, is a 1966 American neo-noir art drama film directed by Coleman Francis, who also wrote and co-produced the film, and played the starring role. I
VHS release cover on the Anthony Cardoza Classics label
The Bay of Pigs Invasion, also known as Playa Girón in Cuba, after the beach where the battle took place, was a failed military landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba in April 1961 by the
Red Zone Cuba
…role. It follows the meandering adventures of an escaped convict and two ex-convicts he recruits along the way as they become involved in the 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion, and a quest to find a hidden treasure in a tungsten mine. In 1994, the film was brought out from obscurity when it was featured as an episode of the…
Counterattack by Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces near Playa Girón on 19 April 1961
Provisional President of Cuba Manuel Urrutia with rebel leaders Che Guevara and Camilo Cienfuegos, 1959
Cuban Army officer Huber Matos after his arrest, being transported to La Cabaña
The ship La Coubre after exploding in the Havana harbor, 1960. Shortly afterward, Castro would deem the explosion a result of American sabotage, worsening US–Cuba relations.