Regan's Foreign Policy in the Seventies

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Regan promised an even more aggressive and reactionary foreign policy all over the place, including in southern africa. His focus was not eastern europe, where roll back would have meant war with the soviet union, but the third world,. Defeats of the 19 seventies had occurred, viet nam, afghanistan, angola, ethiopia, zimbaba, nicaragua, granada. There were quite serious proposals within the rakin administration to actually invade cuba, which cuba took very credibly.

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.