What Is the Significance of the Cuban Victoryango in South Africa?

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How did the cuban advance change the political situation in south africa? And how determinative was cuba's roll in ending a partid ya? I am not knowledgeble enough to really answer this in a serious way. What i can do is to quote nelson mandela. The victory of quito conaval uses curitoaval as a symbol of a whole campaign in souther angola, and was decisive for the victory of my people against uper tide. These elections wild not have taken place, not at the time, without the cuban victoryango.

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.