'Chegavara', the Cuban Revolutionary Leader

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There were two motivations in cuba, an forein policy in the third world. One was revolutionary idealism, and the other one was self defence. At sad an attendant, and she goes to africa, sub southen africa. The people who go with hiim don't know anything about south southern africa. And cherevara comes back tavan full of enthusiasm. Is going to be the largest cover operation of cube at tha time,. About 120 military instructors, and are going to be led by chegavara. But when they arrived thate, revolt had essentially been defeated. Forforce and his guerillas was almost an agony.

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.