Our History is Still Being Written: The Story of Three Chinese-Cuban Generals in the Cuban RevolutionPathfinder, 2005 - 216 pages A chapter in the chronicle of the Cuban Revolution, as told by those on the front lines of that ongoing epic. Armando Choy, Gustavo Chui, and Moisés Sío Wong-three young rebels of Chinese-Cuban ancestry-threw themselves into the great proletarian battle that defined their generation. They became combatants in the clandestine struggle and 1956-58 revolutionary war that brought down a U.S.-backed dictatorship and opened the door to the socialist revolution in the Americas. Each became a general in Cuba's Revolutionary Armed Forces. Here they talk about the historic place of Chinese immigration to Cuba, as well as more than five decades of revolutionary action and internationalism, from Cuba to Angola, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. Fidel Castro and Nelson Mandela). |
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... mission to Angola , 1975-91 Between November 1975 and May 1991 , more than 375,000 Cuban volunteers responded to a request for solidarity from the government of Angola . The volunteer combatants took part in an internationalist mission ...
... mission to Angola , 1975-91 Between November 1975 and May 1991 , more than 375,000 Cuban volunteers responded to a request for solidarity from the government of Angola . The volunteer combatants took part in an internationalist mission ...
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... Angola in the full conviction that they were carrying out an act of political solidarity , with the same con- sciousness and courage with which fifteen years earlier they had defeated the invasion at Playa Girón ... MISSION TO ANGOLA 81.
... Angola in the full conviction that they were carrying out an act of political solidarity , with the same con- sciousness and courage with which fifteen years earlier they had defeated the invasion at Playa Girón ... MISSION TO ANGOLA 81.
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... Angola ? CHUI : I was there briefly in 1976 , and I later served from 1986 to 1988. As Mary - Alice said , Moisés , Choy , and I all served in Angola . But not only that . The majority of the officers of the armed ... MISSION TO ANGOLA 89.
... Angola ? CHUI : I was there briefly in 1976 , and I later served from 1986 to 1988. As Mary - Alice said , Moisés , Choy , and I all served in Angola . But not only that . The majority of the officers of the armed ... MISSION TO ANGOLA 89.
Table des matières
Introduction by MaryAlice Waters | 1 |
Appendix | 5 |
Armando Choy | 13 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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