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 virtually all of the countries involved--Gleijeses
was even able to gain extensive access to closed Cuban
archives--this comprehensive and balanced work sheds new light on
U.S. foreign policy and CIA covert operations. It revolutionizes
our view of Cuba's international role, challenges conventional U.S.
beliefs about the influence of the Soviet Union in directing Cuba's
actions in Africa, and provides, for the first time ever, a look
from the inside at Cuba's foreign policy during the Cold War.
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