The Untold Story of Cuba's Support for African Independence Movements Under Fidel Castro
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- Опубліковано 27 лис 2016
- democracynow.org - Across the developing world, former Cuban President Fidel Castro was viewed as a hero who stood up to the United States and assisted Marxist guerrillas and revolutionary governments around the world. In the 1970s, he sent Cuban troops to Angola to support a left-wing government over the initial objections of Russia. Cuba helped defeat South African insurgents in Angola and win Namibia’s independence from South Africa in 1990, adding pressure on the apartheid regime. After Nelson Mandela was freed from prison in 1990, he repeatedly thanked Castro. We feature excerpts of Castro speaking about Cuba’s role in Angola and South Africa, including a clip of his first meeting with anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela, and speak with Bill Fletcher, a founder of the Black Radical Congress, and Peter Kornbluh, director of the Cuba Documentation Project and co-author of "Back Channel to Cuba: The Hidden History of Negotiations Between Washington and Havana."
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Solidarity - a foreign concept to Americans.
I was born in Cuba in 1989, grew up there for 14 years. Back then I used to hate Fidel and his ideals. I felt as if we had to live in poverty because the PCC(Communist Party) wanted to show the world how great they were at the expense of their own people. Now I tend to think of him as a visionary, he was trying to achieve something greater than national stability, he was trying to change the world for the better and I admire that.
DKhisa I am Haitian that is so true they gave Haiti an embargo after they gain their independence in 1804. Haiti had an embargo in the 90's also. Cuba had an embargo since the cold war recently lifted by Obama. An embargo cripple a country to the core. you cannot bring technology, resources for education, industrial product, they can only survive with what they have in the country. You cant trade, you can only feed people with only things that are in the country. No country can develop with an embargo because you are isolated from the rest of the world.
Hideyoshi No-Kami so um why aren't you still in Cuba fulfilling his visionary ways? Smh
So you admire top down dictatorship. Slavery is good, and liberty is bad.
I've been to Havana. Love the Cuban people. Wish they were free, as most of them do. So many begged me to help them get out.
You should give everything you own to the poor, and go live there as a happy peasant.
Gromsky has done his job well on you.
@@JG-qm2sy The concentreation camps were abolished like after 4 years? They were there because of the idea that gay people couldn't serve in the military, the abuse that happened there wasn't on purpose and when Fidel saw it himself he abolished them
@@JG-qm2sy I really doubt anything the capitalist side says. Please cite any sources
(True) Africans will never forget Fidel, Che and the Cuban people! Thank you!
true with cuban and fidel but Che was a racists he hated Mexicans and black people.
Ooooh yes we will never forget
@@cubanreemachine9592 how did Che hate Africans? Any sources for this? He fought in Congo in the independence movement.
@@platosbeard4449 He said that "The black is indolent and a dreamer; spending his meager wage on frivolity or drink; the European has a tradition of work and saving, which has pursued him as far as this corner of America and drives him to advance himself, even independently of his own individual aspirations." in one of his books if this is not racist than i don't know what is.
@@cubanreemachine9592 tell me the book so I can check this. Thanks
wow.
sometimes i feel like Everything is a lie, in America.
donHooligan I know the feeling
it is a lie
donHooligan that's because it is. You live inside an empire not a republic.
THAT'S BECAUSE OF YOUR CORRUPT MEDIA AND YOUR UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT ☠☠☠
It is
earlier, haiti wanted to free all african countries after they got their freedom. however, america, the french and the british squashed this intiative. however, castro picked it up later. remember he and che' were revolutionaries.
Yet they blame the ruling class of Haiti, the very same rulers they put in charge as their puppets after eliminating and killing each and every decent leader the people of those countries elected!
Che Murdered a whole village of Congolese and was a complete racist.
Exactly
Salute from Martinique
Thanks to the cuban Revolution there's total peace in the entire island. A country that's at peace with itself and focuses on studies can help its brothers and sisters from other nations. If USA was to stop strangling the small island than Cuba would be a great asset to the entire World.
Cuba is a poor, 3rd world country thanks to Castro and communism
Why do Cubans risk their lives to come to Florida?
Risk? In present tense you mean? Or do you mean after 1959?
Is your qu just rhetorical, or do you not know the reasons landowners left Cuba?
Cuba openly let and assisted anyone who wasn't a Batista crime collaborator to leave Cuba if they chose.
You can look up the literal policy and documentation regarding this, as well as anecdoctal evidence.
As for now?
@jamesbrowning9210 oh because the So called Revolution is just a modern Slave trade. And no body likes to be a willing slave.
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This is AWESOME, thank you Amy for all that you bring to light💃
I'm a Non-White South African and because of Cuba, I am now a free person. R.I.P Fidel Castro.
That is a load of crap. Your freedom has nothing to do with dictator Fidel Castro.
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bbob70 Dude, It is a historical fact. Please do some research.
bbob70
You Public School Historians are fuckin hilarious, its no wonder your brutal government gets away with murder and atrocitie.
bbob70 ua-cam.com/video/zmTCIx4YbGs/v-deo.html
RIP Fidel Castro...
More brain-dead liberals. Castro was a ruthless communist who's death is celebrated by the Cuban-American community..
By Cuban-American community no. By the Cuban Miami community who are all rightwing horrendously extreme conservatives that supported the horrendous butcher Batista. You clearly dont even know what Cuba was like before Castro, the Miami Exiles are horrendous people that supported one of the worst dictators in South America -- Batista.
+Deplorable Patriot You're the one who's brain dead..idiot! My people have been through far worst in America...
@Deplorable Patriot.......can't you come up with a better LIE???.
Deplorable Patriot
Because capitalism is so great. Funny how when Capitalists move about the globe racketeering commiting murder, removing democratically elected presidents, has a 90% civilian murder rate, destroying the environment causing child mortality rates to sky rocket, its called democracy, or peace keeping. When someone beats ass on a CIA installed brutal dictators they are called communists. You dont even know what a Communist is ya bafoon. Imperial Communists are found mainly in the US Govt.
*RIP Mr. Fidel Castro!*
FUCK FIDEL CASTRO HIJO DE PERRA
Fidel Castro is a good man but it never gets talked about in history, Cuba freed South Africa from apartheid, viva Cuba
LMAO FROM A CUBAN BORN AND RAISED FIDEL CASTRO WAS THE DEVIL U DONT KNOW WHAT U TALKING ABOUT
castro came through for mandela and south africa, but for his own country. the world is not this simple. his own people hate him, while south africans love him. ironic.
Just because he helped African countries in his efforts to spread communism, DOES NOT MAKE HIM A GOOD PERSON. Talk to Cubans. Talk to current Angolans still stuck under the dictatorship that is the MPLA. Please look a little further
Angola, Cuba, South Africa!! These countries!! Have been helped by CUBA to be liberated! Im against communism. But at that time it was the best transition available. As you cannot come from colonialism to capitalism! This is why most Africans countries got rip off. Multinationals are coming in to negotiate with people that fought in the bush and now are leading a country!!
Communism gave Angola time to understand the dinamics of world politics without being negatively inlfuenced by greed. But unfortunataly in Angola they went from Communism to extreme capitalism!! This transition is where it failed!!
Don't forget mention Angola, on struggle against apartheid and independence of Namibia.
8:09 " ... There's a story I heard about what happened in Angola on the night of Independence. There was panic ... South African troops and their allies were approaching ... And then at midnight the people went down to the docks and out of the darkness came Cuban troops ..." May Fidelismo continue to bring the light the world!
@@thisthatl403 you prefer racism???
Travis pepe: Racism is created by Men. By the mind and Ego of men. Communism does not solve and eradicate racism.
@@thisthatl403 but the comment was about Castro saving a African nation form racist colonizers so you are defending the racist South African government.....
Fidel almighty god sent you here for. A purpose you you have done you work rest in peace
he's a piece of history....regardless of what he's done
Thankfully he's history.
BeardedAlbatross
Thanks to capitalists answer to everything is more guns, you and your next generation kin will be history as well. Somehow Cuba is clean, water, air, oceans, people, while the US just gets greedier and greedier, we will all pay for that.
What did he do except helping opressed african people ?
The more I study Fidel and the Cuban Revolution the more I realize that the man really was a hero. The US government and mainstream media have lied to us about Castro because he was literally a rebel who refused to submit to them and their greed.
@@biqilee5420 increase education levels in the island and became the most educated nation in the Americas, made the backbone of the nation’s healthcare, which made a lung cancer vaccine and 2 covid-19 vaccines, kept stability in places like angola and south africa, etc
The next generation should pick up the struggle with education. Engineering, and medical training, agriculture should pave the way. We shall be there with time.
Rip Fidel . The future belongs to you. You truly fought every second against colonialism .
Thank you Amy for great report!
Viva Fidel!!!!! Viva Cuba!!!!!! Land of the great minus the pigs in Florida! A government For the people is a government to be veneer. Fidel will remain forever and ever a PRIME example to those of us in quest of TRUE liberty.
Rest in POWER commandante!!
How is the Cuban government for the people if Fidel Castro never allowed elections in Cuba?
+Titus Snyder Because he knew that allowing election would equal a failed country....Election doesn't always benefit a country....There are times when a stable constant government is better. Castro knew what was BEST for Cuba.
May he rest in POWER and in peace 🌟
Titus Snyder
Sorry but you live in a land of make believe if you think your vote counts for jack shit in America.
at least in America I have the right to vote and take part in the political process which I gladly help Trump win instead of Crooked Hillary. Unlike Fidel Castro who was a sworn enemy of democracy who ruled for 50 years which was only stopped because of his age.
Titus Snyder fool in Cuba anyone can serve in the National Assembly (congress) you don't need millions to run like in USA
My husband DIRECTLY benefited from Fidel Castro's interruption of the white's rule under the apartheid. My husband was born and raised in South Africa as he is Tswana and he experienced the violence of the apartheid as South Africa just received its "freedom" in 1994. This man went against the "powers that be" and risked his LIFE to be an instrument of freedom for others at the cost of his own. Castro escaped 638 attempts on his life that the U.S. govt tried to carry out. I don't care how ANYONE feels about Castro, HE IS A HERO!! #vivaCastro #RestInPOWER #king
You can do two things at once; help to save one group of people while opressing, seizing the property of & torturing another group.
Which one matters more?
Cubans are descendants of Africans that is why they are more stronger and courageous today. God bless Cuba and Africa.
Most Cubans are descendants of Spaniards unless they are black. Then they are descendants of Africans.
Cubans are mostly Spaniards, from south Europe, around 72% of cuban DNA is from Spain, african ancestry is an important component but it makes around 26% of cuban DNA. F. Castro was a communist dictator that tried to spread communism everywhere he could, took any chance he could to do so and Africa is a very vulnerable continent for those social political economic experiments
As a Jamaican I will never forget the love and support from brother Fidel. I love this man so much I tattooed him to immortalize him. I thank you for everything you and the Cuban people have done. 🇨🇺✊🏾🇯🇲
i wish the media would show this... 2 greats!
Loving this one thanks for sharing very information blessed love to all knowledge is power hopefully everyone pays attention keep up the good work so many people don’t know about what Castro do for Africa 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲
WITH OUT Castro racism would still be king in the world today
True
WOW 🤣🤣🤣
Rest In Perfect Peace & harmony 🙏🏽 Papa Fidel Castro. May God Embrace you in the highest level in heaven ❤️🌹...
You did so much for our Continent🌍 and fought so many wars for Mama Africa . Till this day we have Cuban doctors in my country 🇬🇲. RIP with the Archangels
Facts..... Peace Queen...
Just ran across a video saying Castro had African blood. I'm here now... Searching...I Never knew.. How much Castro did for our African people.. U.S. brainwashed me of course... So much we Don't Know... Great video great comment... Thanks..
Viva Fidel and Cuba
You would have Stalin as your profile pic. Que pena
Patria o muerte. Venceremos. Hasta la Victoria Siempre.
Oh, that's so Madiba, "How dare you not allow me to shower you with love!".
They got a special place in hell for Henry Kissinger
They should ask afro Cubans how the Castro family sees black Cubans
The Democracy Now group has always been Fidel Castro friendly with all their presentations about him for years, and rightfully so, if I may add. With the addition of interviewing Mr. Bill Fletcher made this report a fantastic one. Thumbs way up.
@John Williamson Mr. Williamson, you commented as if you know something about Ethiopia's former leader the rest of us do not. No challenge from me to you on that ordeal. I'm just glad you acknowledged my comment.
@John Williamson They will never believe you, the romantic bullshit will hover over both of their images forever unfortunately.
You could show them Cuban's having their land seized & being hauled off to a camp & they'd still wear those corny fucking t shirts with Che & Castro's trendy photos on them.
As far as I'm concerned Russia or any other so called modern European or American never want Africa to be independent but, Cuba always remain special place in every Africans hearts forever!! Beautiful people and Visionary leader. Thank you Cuba !!
When are you coming to South Africa ?? Madiba the great
Thank You very much!!!
thank you Democracy now
Fuck you Communist Now
Lytsout193 use your brain to say something that makes sense otherwise shut up.
Adoupo Jean Francois Regis I'm in America, you cant silence me! Mwahahahaha
Lytsout193
Thats the problem, all the Pubic School level geniuses just keep spoutin all their ignorance while their inverted totalitarian regime just murders around the globe in your names. Preach on nitwit, you will be gettin yours soon.
Real talk
If by "invasion" you mean "liberation," then yes. How about those protests for liberation in Cuba?
Je Adore😉❤️
The video she showed was not the FIRST time Fidel Castro & Nelson Mandela met. They met soon after Nelson Mandela got out of prison back in 1991 and went to Cuba.
La Historia Me Absorverá.
Fidel Castro Ruz.
I love this footage🥰🥰🥰
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Angola, like Zimbabwe, is no better off now...
6:35 not quite true, it was in fact the other way round, Cuito Cuanavale was a stunning humiliation of the Soviet/Cuban/MPLA forces, and SANDF captured a large amount of Soviet equipment when the Cuban/Soviet/MPLA forces chaotically and hastily retreated, including several Soviet tanks and a fully functioning Sam-8 missile system. The airfield was destroyed by the SANDF, and what remained of the Cuban/Soviet/MPLA forces were pinned down and desperately still defending the defensive perimeters of the town.
At the negotiation table between SANDF and Cuba, Cuba requested that they be allowed to withdraw from Angola with their honor intact and that the truth of their humiliating defeat not be revealed to the world, which the SANDF agreed to as a sign of good faith to keep the fragile negotiations in tact. It is due to this fact that the MYTH of the so called "Defeat of the SANDF" got started, and the stories and myth has since just kept spiraling out of control to what is now reported as "fact" in this Democracy Now video. Sadly the battle statistics of losses after the battle (from both side), interviews of those that took part, and some video footage, confirms the SANDF'S version of the battle's outcome. (Also ask yourself, why would they ONLY show SANDF vehicle "retreating" after the battle all intact and working condition, but not a single vehicle from the so called Cuban/Soviet/MPLA "victorious" forces)
PS: Don't take the fact that this correction of the real facts is in any way me being on the side of the SANDF.
The SANDF was defending an Atrocious Apartheid South African Regime that wanted apartheid to continue. Sadly 90% of the troops in the SANDF was so propagandized by the South African state controlled media, schools, and news outlets, that they did not even realise what they were REALLY fighting for against SWAPO. The war in Namibia/Angola was wrong on so many levels, and I doubt any of those SANDF troops would have continued fighting if they realized what they were actually defending!
Fidel castro, Nelson Mandela, Che Guevara! Long live you guys and may God be blessed by the work yall did when yall were among us! I love you brothers, from one of your African brothers in America. 11:38
10:13
Cuba did a lot for Africa but don't diminish the role and help from the USSR and other Easter European Communist states.
You are right. Most of the weapons if not all were either from Soviet Union or China. Other communist states provided weapons, trained guerilla fighters and provided technical assistance. We are proud of such assistance.
@@boitumelotshwenyego6922 For me that is a personal thing because i have a uncle who went to Angola in 1975 to train MPLA.
@@rankoorovic7904 Without that help from people like your uncle, our liberation movements would have been defeated and people lost morale. We did not have the modern military training and equipment that our colonizers had, we only knew how to fight with spears but Soviet Union and her allies in the Eastern block helped a lot.
Without any doubt Fidel Castro will live forever...
Wow, and some people have the audacity to say Castro was a racist.
ON BEHALF OF OUR AFRICAN ANCESTORS, THANKS TO CUBA 🇨🇺AND THE CUBANS!!!
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Long live Fidel and Che!
Well thank Che the Argentinian doctor turned revolutionary for assisting the Castro Bros and friends.
Hasta siempre Comandante, GRACIAS FIDEL
My family went there and the same African they went to help would kill them at night
Yeah good report, but very risky.
ISH
As long as those" independence movements" were comunist
The Soviet Union wanted to increase their influence in Africa and sent the Cubans as their dolls in the cold war chess.
no they didnt actually, Cuba helped Angola out when USSR wasnt wanting to
If Cubans dont have a place to stay, they have Africa
That's what Malcolm x was talking about that's the only way you fight against your enemies all that marching and talking peace not going to do anything Castro did the only thing that the USA understand and that's war peace to Castro much love
The Truth about the ethical values of the Cubans and their action in Africa --- Viva Cuba! Viva Fidel !!!! Viva Humanity ~
Thats Rhas al ghul
He forgot to mention Castro's support for Idi Amin and his close and abiding friendship with the Communist butcher.
Like the USA'S friendship and support of Augusto Pinochet, Manuel Noriega, Saddam Hussein,Mobutu Sese Seko, and the list goes on, but I would run out of space if I tried to name them all here. The kettle calling the pot black.
Good comment Soultec11.
SOULTECH11 What are you talking about? The guy is calling out Castro and you bring up American Red Herring? What does that have to do with how we should remember Castro as an absolutely vile example of a human being?
Doesn't compare to the atrocities of american imperialism.
That´s how I´ll remember Trump. But Castro, I´ll remember him as an impressive intellectual and strategist, with flaws, but mostly with an incredible and positive legacy, at least in political sciences, health, education, and anti-colonialism.
As much as I admire mr. Castro and the Cuban people. Angola paid big money to Fidel for military support.
Can you share the evidence?
@@annettelf7644 read Peter Pollack, last hot battle of the cold war.
@@danielbtwd Thank you, I will. Does he provide actual evidence or just anecdotal?
O Fidel what lies the west have told us about u , we will always love u
viva cuba and fidel castro you are best friends for us Ethiopians and tanke you very much for all you did for us
Viva Mandela, Viva Fidel
speechless. does channel promote democracy? or communism? should be renamed communism now!
You effort to live up to your name seems effortless
mamma said don't be stupid. it got shortened to DB if u must know. does this channel promote democracy? or communism? your insult falls short of answering the original question. is democracy now! a pro communist channel? this piece seems to indicate that the communist dictatorship of Cuba was going around the world killing people to liberate others and the US government was playing the roll of the imperialist in central america... i am totally fine this channel covering this from the cuban perspective. but why is this channel called democracy now! the exclamation point on the channel name signifies what? i am pretty sure that cuba wasn't trying to spreading democracy... my take away form watching this piece was that the folks at democracy now! had a high opinion of fidel and che
i question the title of the channel. i watch it to get some balance and see a different perspective. i like to watch the channel for that reason. when a ! is put on the end of the channel name, one would think it that it was a pro democracy channel. we all know its a leftist channel. this particular video struck me as about as anti democracy as it gets. sorry, i think the channel is misnamed. just my opinion.
Democracy Now talks about many topics, not their fault that you want only a regurgitated narrative that re-enforces your world view of communism
Yes, they might be communists, AND UNLIKE YOU THEY SUPPORT WORKPLACE DEMOCRACY! Why is it sooooo important to you that the wealth that the workers and society DONT get the profit of their labour? And why is it so important for you that the workers shouldnt have any influence over what they put a majority their lives into (the workplace)?
While he was supporting some africans he was also raiding another african
albania support too with money and other thing in communist era
Long live brother Castro us Africans will always remember you.
Long live Fidel!!
always show love for fidel and che fidel always showed to my belove haiti theres one thing the mainstream media wont tell firstly castero was agains their superiority system just think for a second he made sure he put a system in place for each one to have an education here n america u dont see that theres dividisation everywhere anyways rest in peace The Great Fidel our kids will know about u
Stupid for people to sit here and say that Castro is a hero. The man was a murderer. They don’t know what he did to his own people in Cuba.
yeah he freed your grandfathers slaves 😂 evil dictator
@Viper batista was the dictator. castro was not.
The broken record of the exiled... 🙄 So predictable! .. I´m Cuban, I live in Cuba... so I don´t need you to tell me what he did to me or for me... you don´t live here, so you don´t get to decide what´s good for us.... mind your own business in the USA and stop speaking on our behalf... you don´t know shit about us anymore.
Both Castro and batista were dictatorship
Oh no Castro was mean to members of the former regime and large land owner what a monster
CASTRO WAS A BIG HELP TO JAMAICA 🇯🇲. HE BUILD SCHOOL, WATER DAMS AND MANY OTHER PROJECTS. HE ASSISTED WITH DOCTORS FOR THE PEOPLE OF JAMAICA 🇯🇲. CUBA HELP OUR AFRICAN BROTHER AND SISTERS WORLDWIDE!!!
Jamaica is a country that survives off of tourism (a capitalist venture) from wealthier, capitalist countries.
Fidel Castro you are my hero r ip Africans can't repay you its hard to accept the fact that you are dead
*And an INVASION of Somalia
Cuba saved Ethiopia from Somali occupation.
¡Viva la Revolución y el Che! ¡Viva el socialismo! ¡Yo soy Fidel! 🇨🇺☭
shame on Fidel for minimizing the role of the USSR (and Bulgaria East Germany etc) where the hell do you think ANC cadre were trained? USSR never gets its due--mainly I think in the west for aesthetic reasons. USSR were fat had bad teeth they SAVED Vietnam and pase Fidel they sure helped. Mandela said so OVER and OVER!! and by the way who stood by Cuba in its struggle against US Imperialism? Henri Alleg said that Che warned against romanticizing Cuba cool long hair and those neat berets--without the USSR Cuba would be GONE Vietnam would be GONE and South Africa would still be under the sway of the Racists!! Hell 26 million soviets died so Cuba could become and remain socialist! USSR is gone now how is the struggle doing huh! huh!! Fidel knew better!! He remains the greatest revolutionary hero of my lifetime but he is just out of line here
If Mandela saw what the communist regime has done to Cuba he would be appalled.
It is a pity that Castro supported liberation on the African continent but in Cuba 🇨🇺 the Cubans were oppressed.