Cuba! Africa! Revolution! BBC documentary on Cuba and the their help to end Apartheid. A MUST SEE!

Cuba helped free African countries from colonialism and apartheid, which is a largely unknown part of history outside of Cuba and Africa today. Mandela thanked Fidel Castro and said Cuba's role was decisive. It's one of the most interesting documentaries I've seen. I filmed this off of my TV screen. It's a BBC documentary called "Cuba! Africa! Revolution!".

There's also a great book that deals with Cuba in Angola, and Venezuela, for example. The book is called "Our History Is Still Being Written" you can purchase it on www.pathfinderpress.com

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[rdsanchez1966]

@SummertimeOne The Castro family was of the lower upper land holding class. Castro could have lived in comfort and wealth but he lead a revolution and was subjected to many assassination attempts.

Che was from the middle class of Argentina. He could have lived a comfortable life as a Doctor to the middle Class but he too took part in the Cuban Revolution and gave his life in support of Latin American revolution.

[SummertimeOne]

Actually Fidel Castro is not mixed. His parents emmigrated from Spain to Cuba. But sure a lot of Cubans have roots in Africa. Though this had nothing to do with race. It was international solidarity, socialist solidarity! They have shown solidarity to poor nations across the world... Not just Latin America and Africa. A lot of people dont understand this selfless action by the Cubans, and that is because they dont understand socialism.

[ThaPhantom420]

@Killer62262 those south africans r forever greatful for cuba, and we get along just fine with the ricans were i stay

[Killer62262]

even though we hispanic help the blacks, the blacks will still hate on us.

[BigBlackMamba101]

@Katyusha75 You have no originality! You are so monotonous its starting to bore me!!

[Katyusha75]

Blatant liar, BigBlackMamba101,there was no SWAPO in Angola at the time racist Apartheid invaded Angola 1975.You did so by the instruction of USA imperialist to steal and plundering Angola and its natural resources.

[WinkyMaeve]

@SummertimeOne castro and che were both white guys.

[TJPinoy]

¡Viva Che!

¡Viva Fidel!

¡Viva la Libertad!

¡Muerte al imperialismo!

[madscientistify]

@hectorbolshevik dont forget trhe end of the war cuba brought terms for south africa to leave namibia, castro is a friggin military maverick

[madscientistify]

thats a lie , in my african country we have streeets named after castro

[jvarela965]

Arnaldo Ochoa who commanded Cuban forces in Africa was arrested and executed on fabricated drug smuggling charges. The financial costs of all this aid to Africa was charged on his Soviet Express credit card for future generations to pay.