South Africa Is a Good Reason to Intervene

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South africa had serious reason to intervene. But the united states intervened for the most absurd reason, and against the opinion of the buracracy because is needed a quick and easy victory. The one senior person in the bureaucracy who opposed the covert operation was his assistant secretary at any of thedebes. He thought that the covert operation would become public, could not be kept secret, because too many countries woud involved. We will go to tire, etcetera. And hear, you have something paradoxical. Yes, no, he was right in so far as the foreign press reported on the covert operation from the very beginning.

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