03395nam 2200673 a 450 991077759380332120230120033046.01-4696-0336-50-8078-6162-6(CKB)1000000000447680(EBL)475182(OCoLC)56356648(SSID)ssj0000777084(PQKBManifestationID)12361171(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000777084(PQKBWorkID)10754909(PQKB)10962836(Au-PeEL)EBL475182(CaPaEBR)ebr10202606(MiAaPQ)EBC475182(MiAaPQ)EBC4401500(EXLCZ)99100000000044768020010302d2002 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrConflicting missions[electronic resource] Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1959-1976 /Piero GleijesesChapel Hill University of North Carolina Pressc20021 online resource (573 p.)Envisioning CubaDescription based upon print version of record.0-8078-5464-6 0-8078-2647-2 Includes bibliographical references (p. [503]-538) and index.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.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 Envisioning Cuba.National liberation movementsAfricaCold WarCubaForeign relationsAfricaAfricaForeign relationsCubaCubaForeign relations1959-1990AfricaForeign relations1960-United StatesForeign relationsAfricaAfricaForeign relationsUnited StatesUnited StatesForeign relations1945-1989National liberation movementsCold War.327.729106/09/046Gleijeses Piero688896MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910777593803321Conflicting missions1234687UNINA