In 19 62, if ever there was a country justified to have mesized on its territory, it was cuba. The violence of american public opinion leaves you little space to manoeuvre. And we assumed that we had the right to overthrow an errant government in our back yard. With very few exceptions, no one questioned the right of the united states to get rid of fiter castom. This is away a key element that leads to the missal crisis and eventually magna mara a conceded in the very late nineties.
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
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