The Difference Between Angola and Mosambique

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In the 19 seventies, you ad this african marxism. A lot of people in the west believed that one could coexist with the so called commonest goverment in africa. The hard line reganites said, this garmentis to be overthrown. But more pragmatic people like margaret hacher would say we can exist with a garment of pik. That's where you have the real difference between the two groups, not in turatical terms, but in practice.

The second of Dan’s two-part interview with Piero Gleijeses on his book Visions of Freedom: Havana, Washington, Pretoria, and the Struggle for Southern Africa, 1976–1991. This is the story of Cuba’s military defense of the Angolan government against a US and South Africa-backed effort to overthrow the People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA). The future of the entire region was on the line—including the fate of apartheid in South Africa and of Namibia, then a South African colony. Learn Southern African geography by studying these maps: thedigradio.com/visions-of-freedom-maps Support The Dig with money at Patreon.com/TheDig and receive our weekly newsletter.