Castro

[Craig Clark]

David Casseres <casseres at apple.com> wrote, apropos Castro's 
involvement in Angola and Mozambique:

  > What about it?  The local populations, by all acounts I've ever seen, 
  > hailed the Cubans as liberators against the terrorism of Jonas Savimbi 
  > and his ilk (alternately sponsored by the CIA and China) and as a 
  > stabilizing force in countries that had been reduced to chaos after the 
  > badly-prepared withdrawal of Portuguese colonial governance.
Let me second David on this and add that Unita in Angola and Renamo 
in Mozambique were, of course, supported day and night by the dear 
old National Party government right here in South Africa. Cuba was in 
Angola as a much needed counterforce to SA's destabilisation. 

  

Craig Clark

"Living inside the system is like driving across
 the countryside in a bus driven by a maniac bent
 on suicide."
   - Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow"