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Africa’s Cold War

The LRB Podcast

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The Role of Cuba in Angola

Why did Castro send those troops to Ankara? I think it was some kind of emotional ideological commitment to an anti-apartheid struggle. But there was also that, as you've written about this in the NLP, that the role of Cuba in Angola was absolutely decisive. That doesn't seem to have been self-interested in Cuba's interests or other than to say that they could defeat the US.

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