Cuba Learned a Very Important Lesson

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The contact with the guerillas were not easy, and was an alien world. Cuba gave military and humanitarian assistance to the gerillas of guini bizal. The first doctors who entered ginibisa to help the gerillas were cuban doctors. If you had wounded an you wanted to take care of him, you had to transport him all the way to giniconaci - a town at a certain distance from the border where there was a hospital.

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.