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" Conflicting missions : "
Piero Gleijeses.
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BL
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586070
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b415289
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| Main Entry
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Gleijeses, Piero.
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Conflicting missions : : Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1959-1976 /\ Piero Gleijeses.
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| Publication Statement
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Chapel Hill :: University of North Carolina Press,, c2002.
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| Series Statement
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Envisioning Cuba
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xix, 552 p. :: ill., maps ;; 25 cm.
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0807826472 (alk. paper)
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: 9780807826478 (alk. paper)
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: 0807854646
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: 9780807854648
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [503]-538) and index.
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| Contents
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Castro's Cuba, 1959-1964 -- Cuba's First Venture in Africa: Algeria -- Flee! The White Giants Are Coming! -- Castro Turns to Central Africa -- Che in Zaire -- A Successful Covert Operation -- American Victory -- Cubans in the Congo -- Guerrillas in Guinea-Bissau -- Castro's Cuba, 1965-1975 -- The Collapse of the Portuguese Empire -- The Gathering Storm: Angola, January-October 1975 -- South Africa's Friends -- Pretoria Meets Havana -- Cuban Victory -- Repercussions -- Looking Back.
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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."--Jacket.
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National liberation movements-- Africa.
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Cold War.
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Cuba, Foreign relations, Africa.
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Africa, Foreign relations, Cuba.
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Cuba, Foreign relations, 1959-1990.
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Africa, Foreign relations, 1960-
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United States, Foreign relations, Africa.
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Africa, Foreign relations, United States.
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United States, Foreign relations, 1945-1989.
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DT38.9.C9G57 2002
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