What Happened at Quito Conaval?

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After these major soviet inspired dbacs, cuba developed this audacious plan to mobilize all cuba's military might. But the soviets pushed the angolans to launch one final foolhardy assault in the south. And once again, it led to disaster. The s a d f slaughtered angolan troops and pushed the papla back to the town of quanevale. This is a key moment in the tale you tell. And it was the decisive one that pushed cuba o finally to take action, with or without soviet support.

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.