Conflicting missions
Subtitle: Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1959-1976
By: Piero Gleijeses.
Series: Envisioning Cuba
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 552
Subjects: National liberation movements -- Africa; Cold War; Cuba -- Foreign relations -- Africa; Africa -- Foreign relations -- Cuba; Cuba -- Foreign relations -- 1959-; Africa -- Foreign relations -- 1960-; United States -- Foreign relations -- Africa; Africa -- Foreign relations -- United States; United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1989
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [503]-538) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: I Castro's Cuba, 1959-1964 12; title: 2 Cuba's First Venture in Africa: Algeria 30; title: 3 Flee! The White Giants Are Coming! 57; title: 4 Castro Turns to Central Africa 77; title: 6 Che in Zaire 1ol; title: 6 A Successful Covert Operation 124; title: 7 American Victory 137; title: 8 Cubans in the Congo i6o; title: 9 Guerrillas in Guinea-Bissau 185; title: 10 Castro's Cuba, 1965-1975 214; title: 11 The Collapse of the Portuguese Empire 230; title: 12 The Gathering Storm: Angola,January-October 1975 246; title: 13 South Africa's Friends 273; title: 14 Pretoria Meets Havana 300; title: 15 Cuban Victory 328; title: 16 Repercussions 347; title: 17 Looking Back 373; title: Appendix 397; title: Notes 399; title: Bibliography 503; title: Index 539.