The US Insists on Framing Cubans as Soviet Proxies

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The us. was committed to portraying cuba as a soviet proxy force in the even though U.S. Intelligence knew this was entirely wrong, he says. The best thing is to sayis a puppet, is to insult him and it looks good in terms of american public opinion because you're being tough. If castro had been willing to negotiate angala with the united states, carter would stopped saying that he was approxy. But when you be defeated and you don't know what to say, you say it's approxy.

Part one 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. Check out Six Faces of Globalization: Who Wins, Who Loses, and Why It Matters by Anthea Roberts and Nicolas Lamp hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674245952