• Thumbnail for Cuban intervention in Angola
    The Cuban intervention in Angola (codenamed Operation Carlota) began on 5 November 1975, when Cuba sent combat troops in support of the communist-aligned...
    152 KB (21,408 words) - 18:04, 25 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Angolan Civil War
    bases in Angola. While Cuban soldiers actively helped Neto put down the coup, Alves and Neto both believed the Soviet Union opposed Neto. Cuban Armed...
    170 KB (18,902 words) - 02:51, 26 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for People's Republic of Angola
    People's Republic of Angola, based in Huambo with FLNA's Holden Roberto and UNITA's Jonas Savimbi as co-presidents. The Cuban intervention, which would eventually...
    16 KB (1,610 words) - 09:41, 25 May 2025
  • Battle of Cuito Cuanavale (category 1987 in Angola)
    FAPLA-Cuban coalition had failed to "decisively defeat the enemy" and described the result as "frankly speaking, an impasse". Cuban intervention in Angola List...
    86 KB (9,551 words) - 21:12, 23 April 2025
  • Thumbnail for South African Border War
    435, in exchange for the complete withdrawal of Cuban troops from Angola. The Cuban and Angolan delegations had already assented to a complete Cuban withdrawal...
    235 KB (29,110 words) - 05:53, 27 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Foreign interventions by Cuba
    foreign interventions were in Angola in support of the MPLA and in Ethiopia in support of Mengistu Haile Mariam during the Ogaden War. Cuba also intervened...
    59 KB (6,912 words) - 12:58, 26 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Vz. 52 rifle
    that country's reserve stocks and donated to Angola as military aid during the Cuban intervention in Angola. The Czech Castle guard uses chrome-finished...
    16 KB (1,400 words) - 02:20, 1 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Cuba
    Gleijeses 2002, p. 392: "After Angola, Cuba's largest military intervention was in Ethiopia, where in 1978 16,000 Cuban troops helped repulse the invading...
    272 KB (25,754 words) - 09:28, 29 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for People's Armed Forces of Liberation of Angola
    is in the public domain. Country Studies. Federal Research Division. Fontanellaz, Adrien (2019). War of Intervention in Angola: Cuban and Angolan Forces...
    18 KB (2,181 words) - 18:26, 7 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces
    The Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces (Spanish: Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias; FAR) are the military forces of Cuba. They include Revolutionary Army,...
    33 KB (3,336 words) - 13:50, 23 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Angolan War of Independence
    Angola is one of the wealthiest in countries in Africa. Africa portal Cuban intervention in Angola Portuguese Angola Portuguese Colonial War The Soviet...
    111 KB (13,490 words) - 19:35, 26 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Cuban cuisine
    that Cuba is an island, making seafood something that greatly influences Cuban cuisine. Another contributing factor to Cuban cuisine is that Cuba is in a...
    11 KB (1,157 words) - 09:18, 28 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Cuban Revolution
    who had ruled Cuba from 1952 to 1959. The revolution began after the 1952 Cuban coup d'état, in which Batista overthrew the emerging Cuban democracy and...
    165 KB (18,543 words) - 17:57, 28 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Military history of Cuba
    were exacerbated the following year by the Cuban Missile Crisis. The Cuban Missile Crisis (October Crisis in Cuba) was a confrontation between the United...
    49 KB (6,236 words) - 08:29, 15 April 2025
  • Thumbnail for MPLA
    aiding them in different missions. African independence movements Cuban intervention in Angola History of Angola List of current Angolan ministers (all...
    33 KB (3,184 words) - 19:57, 20 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for President of Cuba
    in Cuba First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba Prime Minister of Cuba List of prime ministers of Cuba Cuba under Fidel Castro 2006–08 Cuban transfer...
    8 KB (785 words) - 17:44, 26 May 2025
  • to Angola on November 4, 1975, to support MPLA forces and to counter South Africa's intervention on behalf of UNITA. See Cuban intervention in Angola for...
    7 KB (918 words) - 00:24, 3 October 2024
  • Namibian independence with Cuban withdrawal. The Cuban negotiator, Jorge Risquet, announced that Cuba would stay in Angola until the end of apartheid...
    18 KB (2,067 words) - 08:40, 28 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Angola
    Angola, officially the Republic of Angola, is a country on the west-central coast of Southern Africa. It is the second-largest Portuguese-speaking (Lusophone)...
    175 KB (16,961 words) - 08:28, 26 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Operation Savannah (Angola)
    the subsequent Angolan Civil War. South African forces invaded deep into Angola with the objective of driving the MPLA, Soviet and Cuban forces out of...
    48 KB (5,814 words) - 13:59, 25 April 2025
  • Thumbnail for History of Cuba
    George, Edward (2004). The Cuban Intervention in Angola, 1965-1991: From Che Guevara to Cuito Cuanavale. Routledge. p. 42. Cuban Communism. Transaction Publishers...
    187 KB (21,774 words) - 22:30, 25 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Afro-Cubans
    result of Cuban involvement in the Cold War. Cuba's Prime Minister, Fidel Castro, deployed thousands of troops to the country during the Angolan Civil War...
    48 KB (5,589 words) - 14:51, 28 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Politics of Cuba
    Party is the most powerful position in Cuba. The 2019 Constitution of Cuba states it is guided by the examples of Cuban independence hero José Martí and...
    42 KB (4,232 words) - 16:22, 24 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Communist Party of Cuba
    significant international role was in the civil war in Angola, where Cuba directed a joint Angolan/Soviet/Cuban force in the Battle of Cuito Cuanavale. More...
    28 KB (2,286 words) - 16:28, 23 May 2025
  • to Cuban locals at an affordable price. The AstroBus lines operate with modern Chinese Yutong buses, and are accessible to Cuban Residents of Cuba with...
    17 KB (1,760 words) - 10:17, 23 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Fidel Castro
    Fidel Castro (category 20th-century Cuban lawyers)
    served in Angola, representing about 5% of Cuba's population. The Cuban intervention in Angola was envisioned as a short-term commitment, but the Angolan government...
    253 KB (29,494 words) - 13:59, 25 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for List of cities in Cuba
    This is a list of cities in Cuba with at least 20,000 inhabitants, listed in descending order. Population data refers to city proper and not to the whole...
    9 KB (111 words) - 21:45, 3 February 2024
  • premier of Cuba, the two countries agreed to the withdrawal of Cuban forces from Angola after the withdrawal of South African troops from Angola and Namibia...
    11 KB (1,324 words) - 23:55, 27 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Tanks of Cuba
    List of military vehicles Cuban military ranks Cuban intervention in Angola Cuban Revolutionary Air and Air Defense Force Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces...
    18 KB (1,986 words) - 02:55, 18 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Cubans
    Spanish. The larger Cuban diaspora includes individuals that trace ancestry to Cuba and self-identify as Cuban but are not necessarily Cuban by citizenship...
    45 KB (3,813 words) - 05:30, 25 May 2025