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Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1959-1976

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"Conflicting Missions is an 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 1975-1976, which stopped the South African advance on Luanda and doomed Henry Kissinger's major covert operation there.

The Cuban victory damaged U.S. and South African prestige, weakened detente, and gave heart to black Africans."--BOOK JACKET.

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University of North Carolina Press
Language
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Subjects

Cold War, Foreign relations, National liberation movements, Cuba, foreign relations, Africa, foreign relations, United states, foreign relations, cuba, United states, foreign relations, africa, United states, foreign relations

Places

Africa, Cuba, United States

Times

1945-1989, 1959-, 1959-1990, 1960-

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Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1959-1976
2011, University of North Carolina Press
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2011, University of North Carolina Press
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Misiones en conflicto: La Habana, Washington y Africa : 1959-1976
2004, Editorial de Ciencias Sociales
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Conflicting missions: Havana, Washington, Pretoria
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2002, Editorial de Ciencias Sociales
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Table of Contents

Machine generated contents note: I Castro's Cuba, 1959-1964 12
2 Cuba's First Venture in Africa: Algeria 30
3 Flee! The White Giants Are Coming! 57
4 Castro Turns to Central Africa 77
6 Che in Zaire 1ol
6 A Successful Covert Operation 124
7 American Victory 137
8 Cubans in the Congo i6o
9 Guerrillas in Guinea-Bissau 185
10 Castro's Cuba, 1965-1975 214
11 The Collapse of the Portuguese Empire 230
12 The Gathering Storm: Angola,January-October 1975 246
13 South Africa's Friends 273
14 Pretoria Meets Havana 300
15 Cuban Victory 328
16 Repercussions 347
17 Looking Back 373
Appendix 397
Notes 399
Bibliography 503
Index 539.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [503]-538) and index.

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Envisioning Cuba

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Dewey Decimal Class
327.729106/09/046
Library of Congress
DT38.9.C9 G57 2002, DT38.9.C9G57 2001

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xix, 552 p. :
Number of pages
552

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OL3944571M
ISBN 10
0807826472
LCCN
2001027417
OCLC/WorldCat
46419755
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264940
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