Erneido oliva biography

Erneido Andres Oliva Gonzalez (June 20, 1932 – January 30, 2020) was a Cuban-American who was the deputy commander of Brigade 2506 land forces in the.
Erneido Andres Oliva Gonzalez was a Cuban-American who was the deputy commander of Brigade 2506 land forces in the abortive Bay of Pigs Invasion of Cuba in April 1961.
Born in Aguacate, on the outskirts of Havana, Oliva attended the Cuban Military Academy, where he became a commander of the cadets and.

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North American Military Personnel Introduction: Erneido Oliva, Jorge Salazar, Policarpo Paz García, Juan Alberto Melgar Castro, Mariano Arista

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CUBAN ARMY SEEN AS KEY TO OUSTER OF CASTRO BAY OF PIGS VETERAN SPEAKS UP

by Don Bohning

Miami Herald Staff Writer

Gen. Erneido Oliva, now retired, was second in command at the Bay of Pigs. The issue of what to do with the Brigade members, had the invasion been called off at the eleventh hour, was `more than a problem. It was a big problem,' he says.

Thirty nine years later, Erneido Oliva, deputy military commander and hero of the ill-fated Bay of Pigs invasion, sees only a single solution for ridding Cuba of Fidel Castro: a military one.

Oliva is the highest-ranking survivor of the April 17, 1961, Bay of Pigs assault, one of the true milestone events of the Cold War. Nearly four decades later, Oliva spoke with The Herald in his first extensive interview on the invasion and its aftermath, saying that the solution to the Cuba problem lies not in another exile army, but in ``the Cuban armed forces reaching the conclusion that Castro does not offer anything to the Cuba of the future. . . .

``I don't want to put down the dissidents. I think it's great to have political

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MAJOR GENERAL ERNEIDO OLIVA

by Humberto Fontova

Retired Major General of the U.S. Army, Erneido Oliva, was the second in command of the freedom-fighters who hit the Bay of Pigs beachhead 50 years ago.

The Knights of Camelot dumped Oliva and his men on that beachhead with only light arms and no air cover Ђ”then abandoned them. Oliva'Ђ™s men were outnumbered 30 to one by Castro'™s Soviet led and supplied troops, who had swarms of Soviet T-34 Tanks and jets overhead. On the third day of unrelenting battle Oliva'Ђ™s men were virtually out of ammo for their carbines and the battlefield horrors were taking their toll.

"ЂњWhere are the U.S. planes?"Ђќ they kept bellowing into their radios. "ЂњWhere is our ammo?!"Ђќ Crazed by hunger and thirst, they'Ђ™d been shooting and reloading without sleep for three days. Many were hallucinating. By then they knew damn well they"'™d been abandoned by the Knights of Camelot.

That'Ђ™s when Castro"Ђ™s Soviet Howitzers opened up, huge 122 mm ones, four batteries"Ђ™ worth. They pounded 2,000 rounds into Oliva's men over a four-hour period. "Ђ