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This episode of the dig is brought o you by our supporters at patrion dot com and n plus one magazine. In exchange for a donation of any size, as little as one or n plus one will make you a personalized reading list of ten books based on your answers to a sort of personality quiz. Pierro glieses is a professor of american foreign policy at john hopkins university school of advanced international studies. Visions of freedom tells the incredible story of cuba deploying a massive military and social aid mission to defend angola's government against a u and south africa backed effort to overthrow the people's movement for the liberation of angola.

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.