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Brigade 2506 (Brigada Asalto 2506) was a CIA-sponsored group of Cuban exiles formed in 1960 to attempt the military overthrow of the Cuban government headed by Fidel Castro. It carried out the abortive Bay of Pigs Invasion landings in Cuba on 17 April 1961.
Un refugio para el amor (English title: A Shelter For Love [1]) is a Mexican telenovela produced by Ignacio Sada for Televisa.It aired on Canal de las Estrellas from February 6, 2012 to September 23, 2012 [2] [3] [4] It is a remake of the Venezuelan telenovela La zulianita and the Mexican telenovela Morelia.
Music was an important means of lifting spirits within the International Brigades. The XVth Brigade's songs were "Jarama Valley" and "Viva la Quince Brigada". [9] After an invitation from J. B. S. Haldane, [10] American singer and activist Paul Robeson traveled to Spain in 1938 to bolster the Republican cause. [11]
"Viva la Quinta Brigada" is a Christy Moore song about the Irishmen who fought in the Spanish Civil War against Franco. The title was changed to " Viva la Quince Brigada " in some later recordings. The song is about the Irish socialist volunteers , who were a small contingent within the 15th International Brigade , and who in later years became ...
The Special Forces Corps (Spanish: Cuerpo de Fuerzas Especiales) are the special forces battalions of the Mexican Army.Formerly the Special Forces Airmobile Group (Spanish: Grupo Aeromóvil de Fuerzas Especiales) or GAFE, the SF corps has six regular battalions; plus four specialized units, one of those units is the Fuerza Especial de Reaccion, the other three remain secretive for the public ...
During the Spanish Army's 2015 reform, the brigade was remodelled as a multipurpose brigade with the same structure and equipment as brigades "Rey Alfonso XIII" II of the Legion, "Galicia" VII, and "Canarias" XVI, with only the Bandera "Roger de Flor" I/4 unit retaining sole paratrooper status.
The Plus Ultra Brigade, or Brigada Hispanoamericana, was a military contingent of mixed personnel from Spain (some 1,300 troops), the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua (about 1,200 troops between the four), which was commissioned to support coalition troops in the Iraq War. The deployment started in July 2003.
Los comisarios políticos en el Ejército Popular de la República (in Spanish). Ediciós do Castro. Engel, Carlos (1999). Historia de las Brigadas Mixtas del Ejército Popular de la República (in Spanish). Madrid, Almena. ISBN 84-922644-7-0. Martínez Bande, José Manuel (1975). La llegada al mar (in Spanish). Madrid: Editorial San Martín.