There is a conversation in july 19 88 in london between chester crocker and the head of the cuban devegation, horrer iskap. After the planer is over to riska a o, when he sees sir chester croker come coming, he lights a cigar,. And chester croaker with an extremely arrogant guy who teted an gons lite, nothing t ten coon. So goes to and says, i is a question for you. Will your troops stop at the border? Because theyare getting very cross the amibian border? What do your people intend to do enriske? I imagine smoking a cigar. Ah
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
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