Re: [A-List] Cuba and Africa

[Erik Freye <efreye@xxxxxxxxx>]

Here are two reviews of a fairly recent book entitled
"Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington, and Africa,
1959-1976." If I recall correctly, the author had
access to previously classified diplomatic documents.


Maybe they will be helpful to this discussion:

http://www.monthlyreview.org/0603parenti.htm

http://auto_sol.tao.ca/node/view/1642?PHPSESSID=b854d3619e5c55e2b684f8c4247ed473

--- bar@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>
> Having met some of the Cuban soldiers who fought in
> Southern Africa I
> cannot agree that Cuba was coerced. Then you would
> have to argue that Che
> Guevara's adventure in Tanzania-Congo was coerced
> when it was clearly
> idealistic.
>
> Chris
>
> > The complexity of geopolitics interwined with
> ideological conflict. Mao
>
>
>

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