Conflicting Missions Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1959-1976

Name: Conflicting Missions Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1959-1976
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ISBN: 9780807854648

ISBN-10: 0807854646

ISBN-13: 9780807854648

Edition: 2003

Authors: Piero Gleijeses

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This is a compelling and dramatic account of Cuban policy in Africa from 1959 to 1976 and of its escalating clash with U.S. policy toward the continent. Piero Gleijeses's fast-paced narrative takes the reader from Cuba's first steps to assist Algerian rebels fighting France in 1961, to the secret war between Havana and Washington in Zaire in 1964-65--where 100 Cubans led by Che Guevara clashed with 1,000 mercenaries controlled by the CIA--and, finally, to the dramatic dispatch of 30,000 Cubans to Angola in 1975-76, which stopped the South African advance on Luanda and doomed Henry Kissinger's major covert operation there. Based on unprecedented archival research and firsthand interviews in…

Book details

List price: $50.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 2/24/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 576
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 1.28" tall
Weight: 2.024
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Note on Citations


Abbreviations Prologue



Castro's Cuba, 1959-1964



Cuba's First Venture in Africa: Algeria



Flee! The White Giants Are Coming!



Castro Turns to Central Africa



Che in Zaire



A Successful Covert Operation



American Victory



Cubans in the Congo



Guerrillas in Guinea-Bissau



Castro's Cuba, 1965-1975



The Collapse of the Portuguese Empire



The Gathering Storm: Angola, January-October 1975



South Africa's Friends



Pretoria Meets Havana



Cuban Victory



Repercussions



Looking Back


Appendix


Notes


Bibliography


Index