46th anniversary of ‘Operation Carlota’, the beginning of Cuba’s 15-year mission to defend Angola’s independence. +Videos
November 5 marks the 46th anniversary of ‘Operation Carlota’, the beginning of Cuba’s 15-year mission to defend Angola’s independence.
-Cuba played a decisive role in southern African national and anti-colonial liberation struggles and helped defeat US-backed apartheid South African forces at Cuito Cuanavale, which in turn helped pave the way for the fall of apartheid.