Conflicting Missions Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1959-1976 [#458966]

Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1959-1976 by Piero Gleijeses
English | February 22, 2002 | ISBN: 0807826472, 0807854646 | True EPUB | 576 pages | 5.5 MB
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.