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may 1, 1961 - Castro public declaration of Cuba as a communist state

Description:

-May 1961, immediately following Bay of Pigs invasion by USA

-Castro declared that the Revolution had been socialist, & that Cuba was a communist state

-however, government had moved towards communism from very shortly after revolution

Added to timeline:

Date:

may 1, 1961
Now
~ 64 years ago