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A Cuban officer smokes a cigar with a member of the Marxist People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) Febuary 23, 1976.

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April 25, 1974 - On this day the Carnation Revolution, a left-wing military uprising backed by mass popular resistance, overthrew Portugal’s fascist dictatorship after 48 years. It ended the Estado Novo regime, brought democracy, and accelerated the collapse of Portugal’s colonial empire in Africa. [link]

[leftistfeminista]

Cuban women soldiers in the battle against Apartheid South Africa in Angola.

Nelson Mandela on How Cuba Destroyed the Myth of the Invincibility of the White Oppressor

In 1991, Nelson Mandela travelled to Cuba to thank Fidel Castro and the Cuban people for supporting the fight against apartheid and colonial

45th anniversary of Operation Carlota, Cuban military epic in Angola

Cuba commemorates this Thursday the 45th anniversary of the beginning of Operation Carlota, which names the internationalist military aid pr

[degeneratedworker]

"Celebrating the 15th anniversary of the beginning of the Angolan War of Independence (1961-1974)" Angola 1976

[deadassdiaspore]

1.On this day in 1975, Cuba began Operation Carlota, its most important military internationalist mission in Africa. It was a major undertaking that contributed to the defeat of the apartheid military regime in South Africa & the independence of Angola & Namibia. More of the story:

2.Across Africa, Cuba provided military instructors & doctors, helping rebels gain their independence from Europeans. After the Portuguese dictatorship fell in 1974 & Portugal prepared to grant Angola independence on Nov. 11, 1975, three local movements fought to take power.

3.The largest rebel group with most popular support was the People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA). They were providing critical training & safe haven to other national liberation forces like the ANC (South Africa), SWAPO (Namibia), and FRELIMO (Mozambique).

4.In early November, the Apartheid South African Army was advancing 45 miles per day toward the capital Luanda. South Africa’s invasion endangered not only Angola’s revolution, but the struggle for liberation throughout the continent.

5.The racists wanted to install a puppet regime led by CIA collaborator Jonas Savimbi who would be ok with white rule in South The MPLA leaders, then understood that only an urgent appeal for international solidarity would enable them to fight of this invasion & secure independence.

6.The Angolans had one unlikely country they could turn to: Cuba. They had already provided military instructors to assist the MPLA. The answer came less than 48 hours later on Nov. 5. Yes. Fidel Castro & the Communist Party of Cuba reached its decision without thinking twice.

7.On another Nov 5 in 1843, a slave called Black Carlota, working on the Triunvirato plantation in the Matanzas region, took up her machete in a slave rebellion in which she lost her life. It was in homage to her that the solidarity action in Angola bore her name: Operation Carlota.

8.On Nov. 7, the first 82 soldiers, carrying light artillery, left to Angola. Over the coming weeks more than 10,000 Cuban troops would land in Angola. More than a decade later, at the end of apartheid, there would be as many as 36,000 troops fighting against the apartheid forces.

9.By the end of 1975, Cuban troops had routed the apartheid army & prevented their takeover of the country. The world owes Cuba and these internationalist soldiers a huge debt.

10.Cuban negotiator, Jorge Risquet and the defence of Cuito Cunavale.

SOURCE: Manolo De Los Santos@ manolo_realengo

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Propaganda política do Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola (MPLA)

[blackros78]

Weapons training for Cuban and MPLA soldiers during the Angolan Civil War.

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Cuban President Fidel Castro, accompanied by President Julius Nyerere  of Tanzania, discusses a point with a Cuban worker during visit to a Cuban-aided agriculture school. Castro apologized to Tanzania for not being able to provide that African nation with more aid, saying his country's resources are tied up elsewhere in Africa, namely Angola, helping the MPLA (Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola) in their fight for independence from Portugal.