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Juan Jose Peruyero (c. 1931 - January 8, 1977) was a Cuban exile and anti -communist activist.
He took part in the Bay of Pigs Invasion in 1961, and he later served as the president of its
veteran association in Miami, Florida, where he was assassinated in 1977. He is the namesake of
the Juan J. Peruyero Museum and Manuel F. Artime Library in Miami, also known as the Bay of
Pigs Museum.
Peruyero was assassinated in Miami on January 8, 1977. He was shot in the back outside his
house, and he died at the Jackson Memorial Hospital shortly after. He had been warned by
Cuban exile Emilio Milian to take precautions three days earlier. In October of 1977, Carlos
Rivero Collado, another Bay of Pigs veteran and the son of former Cuban Prime Minister Andres
Rivero Aguero, claimed that Peruyero had been killed by the Castro regime, as were Jose Elias
de la Torriente and Rolando Masferrer.
Peruyero was a member of Brigade 2506 who carried out the Bay of Pigs Invasion on April 17,
1961. He was captured by Castro's forces and imprisoned for a year. After he returned to the
United States, Peruyero served as the president of the Cuban Bay of Pigs Invasion Brigade
Veteran Association.
With his wife Eneida, Peruyero had two daughter, Eneidita and Nelda.
Peruyero is the namesake of the Juan J. Peruyero Museum and Manuel F. Artime Library, also
known as the Bay of Pigs Museum, established in Miami in 1988.