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Yaffa Hilsenrath Stuby Questions Piero Gleijeses November 10, 2006
1) What was it about Cuba’s relationship with the U.S. that had Castro sayina “The Americans are going to pay dearly…that will be my true destiny.”?
2) What problems escalated in African/U.S. relations because of the intense racial discrimination in the U.S. during the 1960’s?
3) What was Cuba’s relationship with the MPLA in the Congo, and to whose advantage/disadvantage was that relationship?
4) What role did Cuban Volunteers play in Guinea-Bissau in the later half of the 1960’s?<)span>
5) What advantages did the MPLA have over the FNLA and visa versa? Which aspect was more beneficial towards winning the war?
6) How did the collapse of the Portuguese dictatorship affect the stability of South Africa?
7) What was it that happened in 1975 that had Kissinger saying about Castro “[he] was probably the most genuine revolutionary leader then in power.”? :span style="font-size: 13.0pt; font-family: Arial"> 8) When Gleijeses says “that the Africans were disappointed did not matter, however, as long as the continent was safe from the Communist threat”, what does this say about the U.S. foreign policy of the time?
9) Why did Gleijeses in writing this book have to rely heavily on U.S. documents more than Cuban or Soviet Union documents?
10) What happened in Cuba that they finally allowed access to so many documents that until that point were under heavy security? ------ 1) Was Cuba just a puppet for the Soviet
Union's actions in Africa or were they pursuing their own interests? |