| #156361 in Books | The University of North Carolina Press | 2003-02-24 | 2003-02-24 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.25 x1.29 x6.13l,1.77 | File type: PDF | 576 pages | ||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| I found this a very interesting book, following the ...|By Carola|I found this a very interesting book, following the interventions of Cuba and Washington in Africa, especially Angola, in the 1970s. Cuba's successful intervention in the form of troops and help to the MPLA was motivated by idealism and a mission to carry out revolution. Washington's motives included fighting Com|From Library Journal|Gleijeses (Sch. of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins Univ.; Shattered Hope: The Guatemalan Revolution and the United States, 1944-1954) offers a Cold War study not of two superpowers but of Third World policy in Third World
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 di...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1959-1976 | Piero Gleijeses. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
