Bay of Pigs- any prospects of success ?

Saw another documentary today on HIST CHANNEL on the Bay of Pigs invasion declassified, which revealed the full extent of why Brigade 2506's invasion failed, and the extent to which the CIA's high-ranking officers covered up so many important details. Given such factors as the planned USAF airstrikes for 15th April 1961 cancelled by JFK, and the initial plan to land at Trinidad in the heartland of anti-Castro resistance instead of at the Bay of Pigs (which was a deadend beachead anyways due to being bordered by swamp and unsuitable for rallying local sympathisers en masse), could the invasion by Cuban exiles have in any way succeeded, or was any such initiative doomed to failure ?
 
Probably landing at the Bay of Pigs was the worst mistake--that was where Castro had a LOT of support. This Trinidad idea is intriguing, though.

The timing was also bad...Castro at that point was fairly popular among the Cuban people at that early stage. Had the US waited a few years, he'd have gone the same way as any other Latin American caudillo (as he's gone now--he's worth billions and Cuba's vaunted health-care system has better care for Communist officials than the laboritos) and the people would want him gone.
 
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