Cuban designs on Africa

Washington Times ^ | Tuesday, February 12, 2002 | Roger Fontaine

[JohnHuang2]

One of the stranger episodes of the Cold War is the story Piero Gleijeses tells us in "Conflicting Missions." It is a story of revolutionary ambition (perhaps to be confused with personal ambition) in unlikely places and America's response to all that.

[nopardons]

WOW ! Who cares about format, when there is SO much info ?

[backhoe]

Thanks- some of the links I have saved were lifted directly, without editing, from profusion.com-- the format used to translate directly on FR to what I saw on my screen; since the software changes here they crowd together and I just have been too lazy to go back & edit them.

There is a lot going on in Central & South America that our nearly worthless press "just won't talk about"- for whatever reasons.

[Budge]

There is a lot going on in Central & South America that our nearly worthless press "just won't talk about"- for whatever reasons.

Unless it promotes their socialist agenda.

[Ax]

While living in Havana in the mid-1990s, I met several normal Cuban citizens on the streets. Knowing that I was a Yanqui dog, they took chances even talking to me. One fellow, a retired Havana cop, introduced me to his nephew one evening. This nephew had been a conscripted soldier in Angola. His job was driving one of the generals. He told me that the Cuban government's position was that they were only taking light casualties, when, in fact, they suffered very heavy casualties in their fighting with the SADF and UNITA rebels.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Thank you for your report Ax. Castro isn't the darling the LIBERALS want us to think. Good grief! Just writing such a thing makes me sick.

[wardaddy]

We have at times used remnants of the 2506 brigade ourselves as proxies to counter the communist Cuban presence in Central and SW Africa. I have personally been friendly with a few of them when I lived in Miami.

[dfwgator]

And if I see one more picture or someone with a tattoo of Che Guevara, I'm going to puke. I saw some rapper on MTV a few weeks back wearing a T-Shirt with Che's picture on it. He probably doesn't realize what a murderous thug he was. He probably would be even more shocked to find out that Castro had Che killed.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Singer Carole King, right, speaks with Cuban singer Carlos Varela, cantante cubano, in Havana Monday Feb. 11, 2002. King serenaded Fidel Castro with "You've Got a Friend" at a weekend dinner, and U.S. representatives from California shared wines from Napa and Sonoma, part of the latest effort to change U.S. policy toward Cuba. (AP Photo/Cristobal Herrera)

US travelers decry rules on Cuba (Why don't they condemn communism?)

Brainless fools and blatant opportunists.

[Victoria Delsoul]

There is little doubt according to this account that without Cuba's timely intervention in November 1975, the MLPA stood no chance against its Angolan rivals. Or for that matter, the South Africans who came close to seizing Luanda, the capital, thus ending a war that continues to this day, more than a quarter-century later.

Good info. Thanks John.

[nopardons]

This info needs to be made " common knowledge " ! It has been glossed over / lied about , for far too long.

What people don't know, CAN and DOES hurt them !

[nopardons]

Mike Tyson has a HUGE tatoo , if Che, on his side.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the heads up!

[Francohio]

Interesting post.

One definite negative impact the African Adventures had on Cuba was an AIDS epidemic that saw many of the veterans, and those they infected upon their return, banished to isolation wards on islands.

Fidel, ever the darling of the left, also condemned many other AIDS-infected Cubans, especially homosexuals, to the same treatment, i.e., banishment with little or no treatment.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Thanks for the flag, JH., and thanks to Washington Times. Question, should the multi-billion $$$$ "non-profit" AP be exempt from taxes when they so clearly use their massive and monopolistic international resources for political purposes? (IMHO.

Vigilance (and prayers).