Are You Willing to Go?

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In the 19 sixties to te covert operation, theyt iinclude a few hundred people. The first operation where you start having mas a large number of soldiers is angola 19 70. According to cuban law, every one has the duty to defend the country in cube. If you are a soldier and you refuse to go, you were sent aside to a military camp. You don't participate in the operation, you are not punished. Half of the troops cuba sent to angol were a reservist who had done their military duty and then joined live.

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.