Other news item about Cuba the same month as the hijacking:
NOVEMBER 1968 : (ELDRIDGE CLEAVER FLEES THROUGH CUBA TO ALGIERS, WHERE HE WOULD RUN AN INTERNATIONAL HQ FOR THE BLACK PANTHERS) The Algiers connection probably stems from the fact that in November 1968 Eldridge Cleaver had evaded a murder charge by fleeing via Cuba to Algiers, from which he ran an international headquarters for the Black Panthers.
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* 1960s : (CUBA ESTABLISHES RELATIONS WITH ALGERIAN FLN, SHIPS WEAPONS TO THEM THROUGH MOROCCO; ANTI-WESTERN AFRICAN LEADERS ARE TRAINED IN CUBA) Castro established relations with the Algerian FLN; official and public support was extended, weapons were shipped to the FLN through Morocco (1960-1961). Cuba provided shelter, medical and educational services and cooperation in the fields of counter-intelligence and intelligence.
* African leaders from Congo, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Nigeria, South Africa, Spanish Guinea, Tanganyika and Zanzibar arrived in Cuba for military training. - “CASTRO AND THE INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM, A CHRONOLOGY,” by Eugene Pons with a foreword by Jaime Suchlicki, Institute for Cuban & Cuban-American Studies, Occasional Paper Series, September 2001