Linda Heywood to speak at NYU on Cuba Angola Relations | Latin American Studies

Linda Heywood to speak at NYU on Cuba Angola Relations

On Friday, November 6, our colleague Linda Heywood will speak on “Rethinking the 1975 African-Cuban War” at NYU’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.

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Forty years ago, the Cuban government launched Operation Carlota, a large-scale military intervention in Angola while this African country was on the eve of its independence from Portugal. The Cuban military victory over the forces supported by the United States and South Africa represented an explosive chapter of the Cold War and of the African decolonization. The consequences were immediate and long-lasting, since the resulting defeat of South African troops contributed to the end of the white-supremacist regime of Apartheid. In that context, the intervention of a small Latin American country into the two main geopolitical struggles of the time was not only unique, it represented an audacious South-to-South cooperation.

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