The Cuban Approach to Barilla Warfare Is Not Working

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In the 19 60 se don't tebe different. The cuban para military operations in africa were made without even in forming the beginning o sovitude, and without seport from the sovitude. In latin america, there are no differences. Cuba is giving some very limited support to the suparmaros, but is no tin mator. And what is the problem with angola in 75? Is said very clearly by colby, the director of saint dasiae director, at a national security meeting in july 19 75. Calld, besides an more or less quoting the brasion physic, there is the congress of the sovet communist party that

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