Real reason for Ochoa's execution

Division General Arnaldo Ochoa Sanchez, commander of the Cuban Expeditionary Force in Angola between November 1987 and January this year the man, in other words, sent in to clean up the mess after Unita and the SADF had thrashed the MPLA and its Soviet advisers at Mavinga was executed on charges, principally, of attempting to smuggle cocaine to the US in cahoots with Columbias notorious Medellin cartel. Or so at least the Cuban people and the world have been asked to believe. The transcripts of those sections of Ochoas "trial" that were broadcast on Cuban television, and other evidence, suggest that the truth is rather different. The general
may, tangentially, have been involved in the drug trade, but that was not the reason for his arrest and liquidation.
Ochoa, according to those who knew him (including diplomats involved in the Angola/Namibia settlement process), was
a man of striking countenance and much intelligence and charisma.
He knew his mission was to preside over Cubas last hurrah in Angola and that the "heroic" defence of Cuito was, therefore,
a vainglorious fraud, designed to cover a retreat that had already been decided. The 15 000 new troops who followed
Ochoa came to save Cuban face, not the MPLA. Defence Minister Raul Castro, Fidels brother, quoted the general as saying: "I have been sent to a lost war so that I will be blamed for the defeat." That was, indeed, his view.

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[pedropica62]

ES QUE ME QUEDO FLIPANDO COMO VEO QUE TODABIA HAY JENTES QUE DEFIENDAN A LOS CASTRO YO ME ENCUENTRO EN ESPE HAY ENTRE LO DOS EN ESTO COMENTARIOS AÑA EN MADRID Y ESA DISCUSION QUE HAY YA VEO COMO  SE ECHAN UNOS A OTROS

[markyelf]

An honrable man killed at the whim of thugs and their leader Castro to cover their own failiure

[SisterBegonia]

El que se acuesta con perro, amanece con pulgas. Yo no tengo compasion por ninguno de estos hijos de puta. Este y los demas que sufrieron el mismo destino recibieron exactamente lo mismo que le hicieron a otros.

[SkietPiet70]

The FACTS do NOT back up a Cuban victory at Cuito. The goal of the SADF was NOT to take Cuito or advance beyond. The SADF achieved its goals.If any of you have been to Cuito - you will know the roads are littered with Cuban/Angolan vehicles NOT SADF. The airfield is littered with M-28 and Mig pieces. Claims of downed SAAF aircraft and SADF tanks/vehicles and people cannot be backed, by inventory or mourning family - not even by the anti apartheid ANC. In the long term Apartheid did loose.

[rodolfo18953]

LOS EEUU SON LOS TRAFICANTES Y CONSUMIDORES DE TODO TIPO DE DROGAS MAS GRANDE DEL PLANETA Y NADIE DICE NADA PORQUE SERA?SERA PORQUE ES LA POTENCIA MAS PODEROSA DEL PLANETA Y LE TENEMOS MIEDO ?

[Seniorap64]

@144000V I believe you are correct. How is it that having a Communist country 90 miles away from US soil and having a US Naval base in Oriente (Guantanamo) that the US has not invaded and overthrown Castro? No one ever thinks about this? The US has all of Central America, South America, Caribbean Islands and Canada in check. The guerrilla revels in Colombia are backed by the CIA. Everywhere there is a coup against a nationalist government the CIA is backing it up.

[144000V]

Ochoa want it to take castro down ,but he screw the chance,so castro frame him with drug traffiking to silence the coup,because ochoa knew castro is a poppet of the usa since 1963,don't fall for the lie they never try to kill him ,castro a fucking eugenic zionist in bead with the boys in the new world order,castro is worse then north korea,and if you try to invade cuba the white boys wiil kill you,wake up from the matrix this guy was going to kill castro but he fuckt it up and now he is dead.

[amoralapatria1]

That's what happen to you when you become to popular among the elite in Cuba, Castro will prepare your own boody trap. He did that to Camilo who was he's rigth hand man to achieved the revolution, what do you expect he would do to others?

[soylire30]

ohcoa no esta muerto el fue con lo que la revolucion se limpio y le dieron unos millones a todos por perderce de el mapa se calcula que mas de 300 millones de dollares se recaudaron en esta operacion que incluia diamantes de angola drogas de colombia y cuba todo por armamento y dinero una operacion increible