This is a compelling and dramatic account of Cuban policy in Africa from 1959 to 1976 and of its escalating clash with U.
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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 Cuban. policy toward the continent.
This is a compelling and dramatic account of Cuban policy in Africa from 1959 to 1976 and of its escalating clash with U.
S