[lbo-talk] Re: Questions for Pugliese & Dolgoff on the CubanEconomy

[joanna bujes]

Oh, between the loans that get forgiven, the money sent over, the arms, 
the support, etc., it's about 5 billion a year. It might be even fair to 
count the 3 billion to Egypt, which they would never get were it not a 
bribe to get along with Israel.

Joanna

Michael Pugliese wrote:


> On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 19:45:03 -0800, joanna bujes <jbujes at covad.net>  
> wrote:That's on par with US $$ going to Israel...
>
>    I have seen wildly divergent estimates of the amt. of U.S. aid to  
> Israel, from pro-Palestinian sources. What $ amt. you have in mind, btw?
>
>> That's on par with US $$ going to Israel....with very different 
>> results.  Can we talk about the amount of medical expertise/help/
>> support that Cuba exported to South America and Africa???
>
>
>    That is more than reasonable. Even more than the doctors the defeat 
> of  the South African apartheid military forces at Cuito Cuanavale.
> http://uncpress.unc.edu/books/T-6109.html
> Conflicting Missions
> Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1959-1976
> by Piero Gleijeses
> Awards
> Winner of the 2003 Robert H. Ferrell Prize, Society for Historians of  
> American Foreign Relations
> This is a compelling and dramatic account of Cuban policy in Africa 
> from  1959 to 1976 and of its escalating clash with U.S. policy toward 
> the  continent. Piero Gleijeses's fast-paced narrative takes the 
> reader from  Cuba's first steps to assist Algerian rebels fighting 
> France in 1961, to  the secret war between Havana and Washington in 
> Zaire in 1964-65--where  100 Cubans led by Che Guevara clashed with 
> 1,000 mercenaries controlled by  the CIA--and, finally, to the 
> dramatic dispatch of 30,000 Cubans to Angola  in 1975-76, which 
> stopped the South African advance on Luanda and doomed  Henry 
> Kissinger's major covert operation there.
>
> Based on unprecedented archival research and firsthand interviews in  
> virtually all of the countries involved--Gleijeses was even able to 
> gain  extensive access to closed Cuban archives--this comprehensive 
> and balanced  work sheds new light on U.S. foreign policy and CIA 
> covert operations. It  revolutionizes our view of Cuba's international 
> role, challenges  conventional U.S. beliefs about the influence of the 
> Soviet Union in  directing Cuba's actions in Africa, and provides, for 
> the first time ever,  a look from the inside at Cuba's foreign policy 
> during the Cold War.