CUBA: LIVE OR DEAD PHANTOMS IN ÁFRICA ARE WANDERING ACCUSING THE CASTRO.
CUBA:LIVE OR DEAD PHANTOMS IN AFRICA WANDER ACCUSING THE CASTRO. When I was in the third year of medical school, we received "military training" on Tuesdays of each week. One morning, before a dark military professor with a typical Santiago accent, he told us about the bombers and the artillery preparation when the Cuban intelligence suspected that an enemy soldier of the Unita was taking refuge in a village.
I was the only one to raise my voice to what I suspected:
_ And if there were children, women and old people in the Angolan village, what did the Cuban troops do then?
A sepulchral silence spread through my classmates, none dared to speak.
-Well, it was a war without quarter. Everyone was exterminated in the village, it did not matter if they were children, women or the elderly. This is a war. You can not have compassion with anyone.
I was thoughtful. As a trainee we were taught to save vulnerable lives by not murdering them. My companions were silent. To such a degree was indoctrination ....
What was all this suffering and devastation for? A quarter of a century after the end of the Cuban intervention in Angola, the Angolans still suffer great political repression and economic marginalization. The leaders of the MPLA, underpinned by Cuban military intervention, remain in power, commanding a state monopoly capitalism.
Today, they are recognized among the most corrupt and wealthy rulers in Africa, while the majority of the 29 million Angolans live in poverty.
The veterans of these African wars, with physical or emotional traumas, some were treated in Cuban secret hospitals for ignorance of the population in general.
My brother-in-law, a virile and handsome young man, came from Angola with convulsive nervous crises that attacked him when he remembered the cruel fighting in Angola. He made terrible stories of aerial bombardment and artillery attacks. Then he was attacked by the convulsive crises reactivated by the memory. After a few years, they disappeared and they gave him an administrative position in a large company although he only has reached sith grade of education.
.I have a friend who, in the war in Ethiopia, when a retreated Russian cannon that launched projectiles, it hit the front left zone. and part of the eye. He was in a coma for a week until he was brought to Cuba. In a special hospital they reconstructed the wound and placed a piece of metal, I do not know if aluminum, in the affected area. Since then, cerebrospinal fluid was leaking through the nose and treated with broad spectrum antimicrobials.
When I went to Cuba recently, after 17 years forbidden my entry to my own country, I went to visit him. He looked like he was wearing a mask from a horror movie. The left side of the face was crushed and he had lost the vision of the eye on that side. He had become an alcoholic and was lying unceasingly. Poor victim that I witnessed first-hand the war in Ethiopia. When I asked him about Megistus, the Ethiopian leader that Cuba helped, he knew nothing about him. I did not mean to tell him that that the leader for what he had fought in vain , left a hungry town, took refuge in Zimbabwe in a mansion with all the fortune he had swallowed in his own village.
And when Cuba mounted a national show to bury the fallen soldiers in the wars in Africa. I said that if I were the mother of one of the deceased I would randomly give my fist as a sign of respect for those almost beardless soldiers who took Africa to die and not a flag and a sign of applause for the "fallen heroes". Cute and hypocritical all that parade, characteristic of Castroism that makes everything victory or shit.
This is how the living ghosts -who live in subhuman conditions, plus the ghosts of the deceased- wander around the island, who will not rest until the real enemy-the Castro government-falls and true freedom reigns in the Cuban people.
The military interventions of Cuba in the rest of the world began after 1959 and the triumph of the Cuban Revolution, which meant its alignment with one of the two superpowers of the time, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), which meant a change in Cuban foreign policy.All these interventions had as common elements to be directed towards Third World countries, helping the implantation or support of governments related to Marxism-Leninism, justified by the Cuban government under the argument that it was "proletarian internationalism" or realized anticolonialism in support of the peoples that according to the Cuban government wanted to have a socialist state, that the Cuban invasions were functional to the geopolitical interests of the Soviet Union and in opposition to the foreign policy of the United States of America, and were carried out with technical support Soviet and the Democratic Republic The military interventions of Cuba in the rest of the world began after 1959 and the triumph of the Cuban Revolution, which meant its alignment with one of the two superpowers of the time, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), which meant a change in Cuban foreign policy.All these interventions had as common elements to be directed towards Third World countries, helping the implantation or support of governments related to Marxism-Leninism, justified by the Cuban government under the argument that it was "proletarian internationalism" or realized anticolonialism in support of the peoples that according to the Cuban government wanted to have a socialist state, that the Cuban invasions were functional to the geopolitical interests of the Soviet Union and in opposition to the foreign policy of the United States of America, and were carried out with technical support Soviet Union and the Democratic Republic of Germany.
In the official terminology allowed by the Cuban government, the military interventions carried out by the socialist Cuba can be called "internationalist missions".The period in which the interventions are given has sometimes been called by its critics the era of "Cuban imperialism" or "Cuban military imperialism," while in Cuban official terminology the term "Cuban military internationalism" can also be found, 3 it would include both direct military interventions (wars, sending of military forces) and indirect interventions (logistical support of governments or guerrilla movements, activity of the espionage service, incitement to coups).
The Cuban socialist regime, in plans to expand its influence, gave preference to direct military intervention in sub-Saharan Africa, unlike in Latin America, where it gave preference to the sponsorship of local subversive organizations. Particularly noteworthy is the Cuban military presence in Africa, with more than 36,000 troops in 1985, especially in Angola (23,000) and Ethiopia (12,000). Within Cuba, the regime justified the sending of Cubans to the distant African wars under the discourse that Cuba is a "Latin African" nation.As the Socialist Bloc collapsed at the end of the 1980s, Cuban troops and operations abroad were reduced, and with the collapse of the Soviet Union and the beginning of the Special Period in Cuba in the early 1990s, they ceased. Cuban military interventions abroad.This list only includes the sending of Cuban military personnel as regular forces recognized as belligerents among the States.
Military invasions are added separately for coup purposes.1963: War of the Sands in Algeria, is the first intervention of the Cuban armed forces in foreign territory.1964-1965: During the Crisis of the Congo. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, regular Cuban troops infiltrated from Tanzania participated in war actions without much success.1973-1974: During the Yom Kippur War, the Syrian Arab Republic requested military aid to Cuba and the Cuban government sent a brigade of tanks that participated in combats.1975-1991: Regular Cuban forces entered Angola, in the mission called Operation Carlota, to support the communist government and participated in the Angolan Civil War and the South African Frontier War.1977-1988: During the Civil War of Ethiopia and the Ogden War, Cuban troops entered Ethiopia to support the socialist government and fight the Somali national deliberation movement of the Ogaden.1979-1990:
In the Sandinista Revolution in Nicaragua, the Cuban State sent military personnel who took control of the Nicaraguan military security and intelligence services.1959: Failed expedition to Panama in order to start a revolutionary movement in the country. They were arrested after a skirmish with the Panamanian National Guard.1959: Failed expedition to the Dominican Republic to overthrow the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo Molina, in alliance with the Dominican exile.1963 and 1967: Failed expeditions of the Cuban military to take power in Venezuela, installing a friendly government with Cuba and ensuring the supply of oil to the island. The Venezuelan government repels the invasion by destroying the Cuban artillery installed on Venezuelan islands.The pretext of this military interference in Ethiopia was that the Somali military intervention was a very dangerous threat against the invaded country. When in reality it was nothing new and only affected the region in dispute, the OgadenThe big difference between the two countries that help the Ethiopians is that the USSR puts resources, means and Cuba - as always - puts men.The government that Fidel decided to defend was dominated by a man whose mandate brought to his people massive famines that provoked the m The military interventions of Cuba in the rest of the world began after 1959 and the triumph of the Cuban Revolution, which meant its alignment with one of the two superpowers of the time, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), which meant a change in Cuban foreign policy.
All these interventions had as common elements to be directed towards Third World countries, helping the implantation or support of governments related to Marxism-Leninism, justified by the Cuban government under the argument that it was "proletarian internationalism" or realized anticolonialism in support of the peoples that according to the Cuban government wanted to have a socialist state, that the Cuban invasions were functional to the geopolitical interests of the Soviet Union and in opposition to the foreign policy of the United States of America, and were carried out with technical support Soviet Union and the Democratic Republic of Germany. In the official terminology allowed by the Cuban government, the military interventions carried out by the socialist Cuba can be called "internationalist missions".
The period in which the interventions are given has sometimes been called by its critics the era of "Cuban imperialism" or "Cuban military imperialism," while in Cuban official terminology the term "Cuban military internationalism" can also be found, 3 it would include both direct military interventions (wars, sending of military forces) and indirect interventions (logistical support of governments or guerrilla movements, activity of the espionage service, incitement to coups).
The Cuban socialist regime, in plans to expand its influence, gave preference to direct military intervention in sub-Saharan Africa, unlike in Latin America, where it gave preference to the sponsorship of local subversive organizations. Particularly noteworthy is the Cuban military presence in Africa, with more than 36,000 troops in 1985, especially in Angola (23,000) and Ethiopia (12,000).
Within Cuba, the regime justified the sending of Cubans to the distant African wars under the discourse that Cuba is a "Latin African" nation.As the Socialist Bloc collapsed at the end of the 1980s, Cuban troops and operations abroad were reduced, and with the collapse of the Soviet Union and the beginning of the Special Period in Cuba in the early 1990s, they ceased. Cuban military interventions abroad.This list only includes the sending of Cuban military personnel as regular forces recognized as belligerents among the States. Military invasions are added separately for coup purposes.1963: War of the Sands in Algeria, is the first intervention of the Cuban armed forces in foreign territory.1964-1965: During the Crisis of the Congo. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, regular Cuban troops infiltrated from Tanzania participated in war actions without much success.1973-1974: During the Yom Kippur War, the Syrian Arab Republic requested military aid to Cuba and the Cuban government sent a brigade of tanks that participated in combats.1975-1991:
Regular Cuban forces entered Angola, in the mission called Operation Carlota, to support the communist government and participated in the Angolan Civil War and the South African Frontier War.1977-1988: During the Civil War of Ethiopia and the Ogden War, Cuban troops entered Ethiopia to support the socialist government and fight the Somali national deliberation movement of the Ogaden.1979-1990:
In the Sandinista Revolution in Nicaragua, the Cuban State sent military personnel who took control of the Nicaraguan military security and intelligence services.1959: Failed expedition to Panama in order to start a revolutionary movement in the country. They were arrested after a skirmish with the Panamanian National Guard.1959: Failed expedition to the Dominican Republic to overthrow the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo Molina, in alliance with the Dominican exile.1963 and 1967: Failed expeditions of the Cuban military to take power in Venezuela, installing a friendly government with Cuba and ensuring the supply of oil to the island. The Venezuelan government repels the invasion by destroying the Cuban artillery installed on Venezuelan islands.
The pretext of this military interference in Ethiopia was that the Somali military intervention was a very dangerous threat against the invaded country. When in reality it was nothing new and only affected the region in dispute, the OgadenThe big difference between the two countries that help the Ethiopians is that the USSR puts resources, means and Cuba - as always - puts men.The government that Fidel decided to defend was dominated by a man whose mandate brought to his people massive famines that provoked the mThe government that Fidel decided to defend was dominated by a man whose mandate brought to his people massive famines that caused the death of more than a million Ethiopians, unstoppable repression against their opponents and uprisings against the regime.
We spill Cuban blood for defending a man who, fleeing his country, stole more than 400 million dollars from his hungry people.We help to keep in power a person who in 2006, was tried in his country - in absence - for the charge of genocide and in 2008 was sentenced to death.The former Ethiopian president leaves a country in bankruptcy, plagued by drought and hunger that threatens the death by starvation to seven million people. The effects of Mengistu's flight are not going to be immediate, but observers agree that it can be positive for the timid opening announced last year by the then president, with the decision to move towards a market economy.
Currently Mengistu resides in Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe in his millionaire mansion.
On December 6, 1989, in the so-called Operation Tribute, remains of the fallen were brought to Cuba, because there was a moment during the war that the transfer of corpses to the island was prohibited.The Cuban intervention in Angola took place between 1975-1991 and some 350,000 men left the island in military service to the country of southern Africa.
The extinct Soviet Union offered the armament and subsidized much of the logistics of the war.The author Carlos E. Pedre Pentón, who participated as a soldier in the conflagration, speaks in his book The unnecessary war of 10,000 deceasedCuban troops left Angola at the end of the 80s, leaving a country presided by José Eduardo Dos Santos, who was 38 years in power after succeeding Agostinho NetoIn 1975, Fidel Castro initiated "Operation Carlota," which, according to official figures from Havana, would involve, for 16 years (until 1991), 377,033 soldiers and more than 50,000 Cuban civilian aid workers. Officially, it was explained that the self-proclaimed Angolan president Agosthino Neto, a historical communist and ally of the Soviet Union (USSR), had requested military aid from Cuba. However, the reality was different; A former senior Cuban intelligence official confirms that the USSR - which kept Cuba with billion dollar annual subsidies - asked Castro to send the Cuban military force, promising to pay for all the war material.Having Portugal begun the process of independence of its African colonies, the USSR sought to consolidate Neto in power to move Angola into the Soviet orbit, but it did not suit that it appeared as the invading force in support of Neto. In the scenario of the cold war, the USSR supported the MPLA (Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola) of Neto and the SWAPO (Popular Organization of South-West Africa), which fought for the independence of Namibia, while the United States, together with South Africa, they supported UNITA (National Union for the Total Independence of Angola) and the FNLA (National Front for the Liberation of Angola).
Cuba did not act by pure revolutionary solidarity, since it received payment for its services, estimated between US $ 300 and US $ 600 million annually (which would mean $ 4.8 to $ 9.6 billion in 16 years of contention). The author of a recent book on the war in Angola, former Cuban soldier in Angola, engineer Carlos Pedre, obtained a confidential testimony from a former officer of the FAR (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Cuba) that Angola paid $ 2,000 per month per soldier Cuban. Cuba also developed millionaire businesses, managed by high officials of the FAR, with the systematic looting of Angola's ivory, diamonds and wood; They even diverted finished equipment to Havana for various factories in Angola.
It is an open secret that the Cuban military also "stole everything they could" -including vehicles, and home furniture; It is also alleged that they were trafficking drugs. The commander Ochoa, hero in both wars and who did so much for the triumph was shot by the castro so that they did not get dirty in the drug and diamond traffic. Of course, the president and prime minister of the FAR sent from Cuba, do not risk their pretty skin in the fighting, without knowing the hardships that even officers went through in the shortages of a war where troops and officers earned a measly wage and had to go to the black market to exchange food for other products.Despite the high income that Cuba received for its "assistance" to Angola, it did not compensate the majority of the soldiers it sent there; these were mostly very young recruits serving compulsory military service who only received the 7 Cuban pesos a month payable to conscripts in Cuba. To the officers about degree of The "resistance" to Angola did not compensate the majority of the soldiers it sent there; these were mostly very young recruits serving compulsory military service who only received the 7 Cuban pesos a month payable to conscripts in Cuba. Officials on the rank of captain were paid only 600 kwanza, while senior advisers and officers received 900 to 1,000 (one kwanza was approximately one US dollar).Likewise, ordinary soldiers did not have vacations (the officers did) and they had to serve for three years without returning to Cuba.
To top it all, according to the writer Jorge Olivera Castillo, an Angolan veteran, on returning to Cuba, "we were only able to buy one or two changes of clothes, some perfumes of poor quality and some personal hygiene with the paltry amount of money they gave us.
After that humiliation, the winds of Olympic oblivion arrived. "Likewise, Cuba was transferring troops, sick and wounded in its merchant ships with poor transfer conditions. Since I am violating international rules, they were hiding them in the cellars. The trips could last from 18 to 21 days, causing more human suffering and probably the death of many sick and injured.Since the beginning of the war, the corpses of the dead were not allowed to be moved to Cuba. It was not until December 6, 1989, when the end of the conflict was negotiated, that they were supposedly transferred to the island in the so-called "Operation Tribute," performing burials with honors in each of the 169 municipalities in specially prepared cemeteries. .However, veterans of the war report that many of the dead were buried where they had fallen and doubt that many were repatriated.
A former Cuban pilot who served in Angola in 1983 reports that the Cuban dead were unceremoniously buried, directly on the ground and practically without clothing (the boots were reused) in a special section of the Alto Las Cruces cemetery in Miramar, Luanda; When it was full, they started using another cemetery to open another cemetery at the end of an airport runway. He was familiar with the forensic work prior to the repatriations of 1989, but insists that the repatriated remains were not only of Cubans killed in Angola, but also "internationalists" who died in Ethiopia, Nicaragua, Algeria and other African countries.The foreign conflict left enormous income to the Castro regime, but it cost the Cuban people a lot. Thousands returned from the war mutilated, with psychological traumas and some even mad. What's worse, the veterans of the war were treated ungratefully. Many today live in misery and, according to Olivera Castillo, "... many of the beggars and the crazy people who roam the streets of Cuba are veterans of that war."In addition, the Cuban population was deprived of health services due to the large number of professionals sent to Angola.
In short, as Cuban freelance journalist Tania Diaz Castro points out: "On the so-called" epic of Angola, "we could ask ourselves if it was worthwhile for a small impoverished island, located 14,000 kilometers from Angola, to be left without those children in mostly young, many of whom struggled without knowing why they did it.For its part, Angola paid a gigantic cost for the conflict: between 500,000 and one million dead, 3.5 million internally displaced, hundreds of thousands fleeing to neighboring countries such as Zaire and Zambia, rural infrastructure and the economy practically destroyed, most of them of the population in misery, almost two million facing a famine and the abuse of human rights established as a norm.
The scenario of horror included war crimes by Cuba such as deliberate attacks on defenseless civilian populations and even the use of chemical weapons against UNITA troops and civilians who supported them.And now, there are still naïve people of the Latin American left who support the Castro interference in other countries without any interest. Only to implement Soviet socialism and expand the socialism to the Cuban world. When the Soviet Union imploded, the subsidies in money and arms to Cuba ended.Now he replaces them with cheap human flesh: the internationalist doctors whose families are proud in Cuba for what they are going to bring him in sham and the meager dollars they are paid. To the point, that the Cuban family, opts for an internationalist doctor or a pretty mulatto jinetera to improve their lives of hunger and lack of housing.
CUBA: LIVE OR DEAD PHANTOMS IN ÁFRICA ARE WANDERING ACCUSING THE CASTRO.
CUBA: LIVE OR DEAD PHANTOMS IN AFRICA WANDER ACCUSING THE CASTROS.
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CUBA:LIVE OR DEAD PHANTOMS IN AFRICA WANDER ACCUSING THE CASTRO. When I was in the third year of medical school, we received "military training" on Tuesdays of each week. One morning, before a dark military professor with a typical Santiago accent, he told us about the bombers and the artillery preparation when the Cuban intelligence suspected that an enemy soldier of the Unita was taking refuge in a village.
I was the only one to raise my voice to what I suspected:
_ And if there were children, women and old people in the Angolan village, what did the Cuban troops do then?
A sepulchral silence spread through my classmates, none dared to speak.
-Well, it was a war without quarter. Everyone was exterminated in the village, it did not matter if they were children, women or the elderly. This is a war. You can not have compassion with anyone.
I was thoughtful. As a trainee we were taught to save vulnerable lives by not murdering them. My companions were silent. To such a degree was indoctrination ....
What was all this suffering and devastation for? A quarter of a century after the end of the Cuban intervention in Angola, the Angolans still suffer great political repression and economic marginalization. The leaders of the MPLA, underpinned by Cuban military intervention, remain in power, commanding a state monopoly capitalism.
Today, they are recognized among the most corrupt and wealthy rulers in Africa, while the majority of the 29 million Angolans live in poverty.
The veterans of these African wars, with physical or emotional traumas, some were treated in Cuban secret hospitals for ignorance of the population in general.
My brother-in-law, a virile and handsome young man, came from Angola with convulsive nervous crises that attacked him when he remembered the cruel fighting in Angola. He made terrible stories of aerial bombardment and artillery attacks. Then he was attacked by the convulsive crises reactivated by the memory. After a few years, they disappeared and they gave him an administrative position in a large company although he only has reached sith grade of education.
.I have a friend who, in the war in Ethiopia, when a retreated Russian cannon that launched projectiles, it hit the front left zone. and part of the eye. He was in a coma for a week until he was brought to Cuba. In a special hospital they reconstructed the wound and placed a piece of metal, I do not know if aluminum, in the affected area. Since then, cerebrospinal fluid was leaking through the nose and treated with broad spectrum antimicrobials.
When I went to Cuba recently, after 17 years forbidden my entry to my own country, I went to visit him. He looked like he was wearing a mask from a horror movie. The left side of the face was crushed and he had lost the vision of the eye on that side. He had become an alcoholic and was lying unceasingly. Poor victim that I witnessed first-hand the war in Ethiopia. When I asked him about Megistus, the Ethiopian leader that Cuba helped, he knew nothing about him. I did not mean to tell him that that the leader for what he had fought in vain , left a hungry town, took refuge in Zimbabwe in a mansion with all the fortune he had swallowed in his own village.
And when Cuba mounted a national show to bury the fallen soldiers in the wars in Africa. I said that if I were the mother of one of the deceased I would randomly give my fist as a sign of respect for those almost beardless soldiers who took Africa to die and not a flag and a sign of applause for the "fallen heroes". Cute and hypocritical all that parade, characteristic of Castroism that makes everything victory or shit.
This is how the living ghosts -who live in subhuman conditions, plus the ghosts of the deceased- wander around the island, who will not rest until the real enemy-the Castro government-falls and true freedom reigns in the Cuban people.
The military interventions of Cuba in the rest of the world began after 1959 and the triumph of the Cuban Revolution, which meant its alignment with one of the two superpowers of the time, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), which meant a change in Cuban foreign policy.All these interventions had as common elements to be directed towards Third World countries, helping the implantation or support of governments related to Marxism-Leninism, justified by the Cuban government under the argument that it was "proletarian internationalism" or realized anticolonialism in support of the peoples that according to the Cuban government wanted to have a socialist state, that the Cuban invasions were functional to the geopolitical interests of the Soviet Union and in opposition to the foreign policy of the United States of America, and were carried out with technical support Soviet and the Democratic Republic The military interventions of Cuba in the rest of the world began after 1959 and the triumph of the Cuban Revolution, which meant its alignment with one of the two superpowers of the time, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), which meant a change in Cuban foreign policy.All these interventions had as common elements to be directed towards Third World countries, helping the implantation or support of governments related to Marxism-Leninism, justified by the Cuban government under the argument that it was "proletarian internationalism" or realized anticolonialism in support of the peoples that according to the Cuban government wanted to have a socialist state, that the Cuban invasions were functional to the geopolitical interests of the Soviet Union and in opposition to the foreign policy of the United States of America, and were carried out with technical support Soviet Union and the Democratic Republic of Germany.
In the official terminology allowed by the Cuban government, the military interventions carried out by the socialist Cuba can be called "internationalist missions".The period in which the interventions are given has sometimes been called by its critics the era of "Cuban imperialism" or "Cuban military imperialism," while in Cuban official terminology the term "Cuban military internationalism" can also be found, 3 it would include both direct military interventions (wars, sending of military forces) and indirect interventions (logistical support of governments or guerrilla movements, activity of the espionage service, incitement to coups).
The Cuban socialist regime, in plans to expand its influence, gave preference to direct military intervention in sub-Saharan Africa, unlike in Latin America, where it gave preference to the sponsorship of local subversive organizations. Particularly noteworthy is the Cuban military presence in Africa, with more than 36,000 troops in 1985, especially in Angola (23,000) and Ethiopia (12,000). Within Cuba, the regime justified the sending of Cubans to the distant African wars under the discourse that Cuba is a "Latin African" nation.As the Socialist Bloc collapsed at the end of the 1980s, Cuban troops and operations abroad were reduced, and with the collapse of the Soviet Union and the beginning of the Special Period in Cuba in the early 1990s, they ceased. Cuban military interventions abroad.This list only includes the sending of Cuban military personnel as regular forces recognized as belligerents among the States.
Military invasions are added separately for coup purposes.1963: War of the Sands in Algeria, is the first intervention of the Cuban armed forces in foreign territory.1964-1965: During the Crisis of the Congo. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, regular Cuban troops infiltrated from Tanzania participated in war actions without much success.1973-1974: During the Yom Kippur War, the Syrian Arab Republic requested military aid to Cuba and the Cuban government sent a brigade of tanks that participated in combats.1975-1991: Regular Cuban forces entered Angola, in the mission called Operation Carlota, to support the communist government and participated in the Angolan Civil War and the South African Frontier War.1977-1988: During the Civil War of Ethiopia and the Ogden War, Cuban troops entered Ethiopia to support the socialist government and fight the Somali national deliberation movement of the Ogaden.1979-1990:
In the Sandinista Revolution in Nicaragua, the Cuban State sent military personnel who took control of the Nicaraguan military security and intelligence services.1959: Failed expedition to Panama in order to start a revolutionary movement in the country. They were arrested after a skirmish with the Panamanian National Guard.1959: Failed expedition to the Dominican Republic to overthrow the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo Molina, in alliance with the Dominican exile.1963 and 1967: Failed expeditions of the Cuban military to take power in Venezuela, installing a friendly government with Cuba and ensuring the supply of oil to the island. The Venezuelan government repels the invasion by destroying the Cuban artillery installed on Venezuelan islands.The pretext of this military interference in Ethiopia was that the Somali military intervention was a very dangerous threat against the invaded country. When in reality it was nothing new and only affected the region in dispute, the OgadenThe big difference between the two countries that help the Ethiopians is that the USSR puts resources, means and Cuba - as always - puts men.The government that Fidel decided to defend was dominated by a man whose mandate brought to his people massive famines that provoked the m The military interventions of Cuba in the rest of the world began after 1959 and the triumph of the Cuban Revolution, which meant its alignment with one of the two superpowers of the time, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), which meant a change in Cuban foreign policy.
All these interventions had as common elements to be directed towards Third World countries, helping the implantation or support of governments related to Marxism-Leninism, justified by the Cuban government under the argument that it was "proletarian internationalism" or realized anticolonialism in support of the peoples that according to the Cuban government wanted to have a socialist state, that the Cuban invasions were functional to the geopolitical interests of the Soviet Union and in opposition to the foreign policy of the United States of America, and were carried out with technical support Soviet Union and the Democratic Republic of Germany. In the official terminology allowed by the Cuban government, the military interventions carried out by the socialist Cuba can be called "internationalist missions".
The period in which the interventions are given has sometimes been called by its critics the era of "Cuban imperialism" or "Cuban military imperialism," while in Cuban official terminology the term "Cuban military internationalism" can also be found, 3 it would include both direct military interventions (wars, sending of military forces) and indirect interventions (logistical support of governments or guerrilla movements, activity of the espionage service, incitement to coups).
The Cuban socialist regime, in plans to expand its influence, gave preference to direct military intervention in sub-Saharan Africa, unlike in Latin America, where it gave preference to the sponsorship of local subversive organizations. Particularly noteworthy is the Cuban military presence in Africa, with more than 36,000 troops in 1985, especially in Angola (23,000) and Ethiopia (12,000).
Within Cuba, the regime justified the sending of Cubans to the distant African wars under the discourse that Cuba is a "Latin African" nation.As the Socialist Bloc collapsed at the end of the 1980s, Cuban troops and operations abroad were reduced, and with the collapse of the Soviet Union and the beginning of the Special Period in Cuba in the early 1990s, they ceased. Cuban military interventions abroad.This list only includes the sending of Cuban military personnel as regular forces recognized as belligerents among the States. Military invasions are added separately for coup purposes.1963: War of the Sands in Algeria, is the first intervention of the Cuban armed forces in foreign territory.1964-1965: During the Crisis of the Congo. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, regular Cuban troops infiltrated from Tanzania participated in war actions without much success.1973-1974: During the Yom Kippur War, the Syrian Arab Republic requested military aid to Cuba and the Cuban government sent a brigade of tanks that participated in combats.1975-1991:
Regular Cuban forces entered Angola, in the mission called Operation Carlota, to support the communist government and participated in the Angolan Civil War and the South African Frontier War.1977-1988: During the Civil War of Ethiopia and the Ogden War, Cuban troops entered Ethiopia to support the socialist government and fight the Somali national deliberation movement of the Ogaden.1979-1990:
In the Sandinista Revolution in Nicaragua, the Cuban State sent military personnel who took control of the Nicaraguan military security and intelligence services.1959: Failed expedition to Panama in order to start a revolutionary movement in the country. They were arrested after a skirmish with the Panamanian National Guard.1959: Failed expedition to the Dominican Republic to overthrow the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo Molina, in alliance with the Dominican exile.1963 and 1967: Failed expeditions of the Cuban military to take power in Venezuela, installing a friendly government with Cuba and ensuring the supply of oil to the island. The Venezuelan government repels the invasion by destroying the Cuban artillery installed on Venezuelan islands.
The pretext of this military interference in Ethiopia was that the Somali military intervention was a very dangerous threat against the invaded country. When in reality it was nothing new and only affected the region in dispute, the OgadenThe big difference between the two countries that help the Ethiopians is that the USSR puts resources, means and Cuba - as always - puts men.The government that Fidel decided to defend was dominated by a man whose mandate brought to his people massive famines that provoked the mThe government that Fidel decided to defend was dominated by a man whose mandate brought to his people massive famines that caused the death of more than a million Ethiopians, unstoppable repression against their opponents and uprisings against the regime.
We spill Cuban blood for defending a man who, fleeing his country, stole more than 400 million dollars from his hungry people.We help to keep in power a person who in 2006, was tried in his country - in absence - for the charge of genocide and in 2008 was sentenced to death.The former Ethiopian president leaves a country in bankruptcy, plagued by drought and hunger that threatens the death by starvation to seven million people. The effects of Mengistu's flight are not going to be immediate, but observers agree that it can be positive for the timid opening announced last year by the then president, with the decision to move towards a market economy.
Currently Mengistu resides in Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe in his millionaire mansion.
On December 6, 1989, in the so-called Operation Tribute, remains of the fallen were brought to Cuba, because there was a moment during the war that the transfer of corpses to the island was prohibited.The Cuban intervention in Angola took place between 1975-1991 and some 350,000 men left the island in military service to the country of southern Africa.
The extinct Soviet Union offered the armament and subsidized much of the logistics of the war.The author Carlos E. Pedre Pentón, who participated as a soldier in the conflagration, speaks in his book The unnecessary war of 10,000 deceasedCuban troops left Angola at the end of the 80s, leaving a country presided by José Eduardo Dos Santos, who was 38 years in power after succeeding Agostinho NetoIn 1975, Fidel Castro initiated "Operation Carlota," which, according to official figures from Havana, would involve, for 16 years (until 1991), 377,033 soldiers and more than 50,000 Cuban civilian aid workers. Officially, it was explained that the self-proclaimed Angolan president Agosthino Neto, a historical communist and ally of the Soviet Union (USSR), had requested military aid from Cuba. However, the reality was different; A former senior Cuban intelligence official confirms that the USSR - which kept Cuba with billion dollar annual subsidies - asked Castro to send the Cuban military force, promising to pay for all the war material.Having Portugal begun the process of independence of its African colonies, the USSR sought to consolidate Neto in power to move Angola into the Soviet orbit, but it did not suit that it appeared as the invading force in support of Neto. In the scenario of the cold war, the USSR supported the MPLA (Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola) of Neto and the SWAPO (Popular Organization of South-West Africa), which fought for the independence of Namibia, while the United States, together with South Africa, they supported UNITA (National Union for the Total Independence of Angola) and the FNLA (National Front for the Liberation of Angola).
Cuba did not act by pure revolutionary solidarity, since it received payment for its services, estimated between US $ 300 and US $ 600 million annually (which would mean $ 4.8 to $ 9.6 billion in 16 years of contention). The author of a recent book on the war in Angola, former Cuban soldier in Angola, engineer Carlos Pedre, obtained a confidential testimony from a former officer of the FAR (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Cuba) that Angola paid $ 2,000 per month per soldier Cuban. Cuba also developed millionaire businesses, managed by high officials of the FAR, with the systematic looting of Angola's ivory, diamonds and wood; They even diverted finished equipment to Havana for various factories in Angola.
It is an open secret that the Cuban military also "stole everything they could" -including vehicles, and home furniture; It is also alleged that they were trafficking drugs. The commander Ochoa, hero in both wars and who did so much for the triumph was shot by the castro so that they did not get dirty in the drug and diamond traffic. Of course, the president and prime minister of the FAR sent from Cuba, do not risk their pretty skin in the fighting, without knowing the hardships that even officers went through in the shortages of a war where troops and officers earned a measly wage and had to go to the black market to exchange food for other products.Despite the high income that Cuba received for its "assistance" to Angola, it did not compensate the majority of the soldiers it sent there; these were mostly very young recruits serving compulsory military service who only received the 7 Cuban pesos a month payable to conscripts in Cuba. To the officers about degree of The "resistance" to Angola did not compensate the majority of the soldiers it sent there; these were mostly very young recruits serving compulsory military service who only received the 7 Cuban pesos a month payable to conscripts in Cuba. Officials on the rank of captain were paid only 600 kwanza, while senior advisers and officers received 900 to 1,000 (one kwanza was approximately one US dollar).Likewise, ordinary soldiers did not have vacations (the officers did) and they had to serve for three years without returning to Cuba.
To top it all, according to the writer Jorge Olivera Castillo, an Angolan veteran, on returning to Cuba, "we were only able to buy one or two changes of clothes, some perfumes of poor quality and some personal hygiene with the paltry amount of money they gave us.
After that humiliation, the winds of Olympic oblivion arrived. "Likewise, Cuba was transferring troops, sick and wounded in its merchant ships with poor transfer conditions. Since I am violating international rules, they were hiding them in the cellars. The trips could last from 18 to 21 days, causing more human suffering and probably the death of many sick and injured.Since the beginning of the war, the corpses of the dead were not allowed to be moved to Cuba. It was not until December 6, 1989, when the end of the conflict was negotiated, that they were supposedly transferred to the island in the so-called "Operation Tribute," performing burials with honors in each of the 169 municipalities in specially prepared cemeteries. .However, veterans of the war report that many of the dead were buried where they had fallen and doubt that many were repatriated.
A former Cuban pilot who served in Angola in 1983 reports that the Cuban dead were unceremoniously buried, directly on the ground and practically without clothing (the boots were reused) in a special section of the Alto Las Cruces cemetery in Miramar, Luanda; When it was full, they started using another cemetery to open another cemetery at the end of an airport runway. He was familiar with the forensic work prior to the repatriations of 1989, but insists that the repatriated remains were not only of Cubans killed in Angola, but also "internationalists" who died in Ethiopia, Nicaragua, Algeria and other African countries.The foreign conflict left enormous income to the Castro regime, but it cost the Cuban people a lot. Thousands returned from the war mutilated, with psychological traumas and some even mad. What's worse, the veterans of the war were treated ungratefully. Many today live in misery and, according to Olivera Castillo, "... many of the beggars and the crazy people who roam the streets of Cuba are veterans of that war."In addition, the Cuban population was deprived of health services due to the large number of professionals sent to Angola.
In short, as Cuban freelance journalist Tania Diaz Castro points out: "On the so-called" epic of Angola, "we could ask ourselves if it was worthwhile for a small impoverished island, located 14,000 kilometers from Angola, to be left without those children in mostly young, many of whom struggled without knowing why they did it.For its part, Angola paid a gigantic cost for the conflict: between 500,000 and one million dead, 3.5 million internally displaced, hundreds of thousands fleeing to neighboring countries such as Zaire and Zambia, rural infrastructure and the economy practically destroyed, most of them of the population in misery, almost two million facing a famine and the abuse of human rights established as a norm.
The scenario of horror included war crimes by Cuba such as deliberate attacks on defenseless civilian populations and even the use of chemical weapons against UNITA troops and civilians who supported them.And now, there are still naïve people of the Latin American left who support the Castro interference in other countries without any interest. Only to implement Soviet socialism and expand the socialism to the Cuban world. When the Soviet Union imploded, the subsidies in money and arms to Cuba ended.Now he replaces them with cheap human flesh: the internationalist doctors whose families are proud in Cuba for what they are going to bring him in sham and the meager dollars they are paid. To the point, that the Cuban family, opts for an internationalist doctor or a pretty mulatto jinetera to improve their lives of hunger and lack of housing.
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