Cuban Medical Mission in Algeria

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In the early 19 sixties, one important mission, diplomatic mission, was in algeria. And this ship brings weapons from cuba for the algelian rebels and ecomes lisaf casablanca with precious cargo. This is the first step. Then the second step is still cuba,Algeria. A very close tie develops. The caves and thentra cub start focusing on subsid on africa. Here there is a part of a mistake on the part of cuba. They continue thekpo decades and decades.

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.