Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel ratified ... thus fulfilling the visionary idea put forward by Fidel when he said that the future of Angola had to go through a whole process of recovery and ...

He was angered by Cuba's 1976 military intervention in Angola and was considering retaliation if Cuban forces were deployed elsewhere in Africa. The information comes from documents declassified ...

Cuban doctors dispatched by the Havana regime to Angola are raising concerns over Antex, a company tasked with managing joint ...

August: Top members of the Cuban general staff begin appearing in Angola, a mineral-rich Portuguese colony in South West Africa. In Cuba troops hold military training exercises. November 7 ...

Cuba had been supporting the Movement for the Independence of Angola (M.P.L.A.) since the 1960s. The Marxist leader Agostinho Neto had close ties to Havana and was favored by the Cubans.

After Fidel Castro's Communist revolution in Cuba ended in 1959, the Soviet Union supported Havana against a US trade embargo. In the 1970s and 1980s, tens of thousands of Cubans fought in Angola ...

It is hard to recapture from this distance the extraordinary audacity of the Cuban Communist Party central committee's decision on November 16 1987 to reinforce the 25,000 troops already in Angola by ...