Fidel Castro saw an opportunity to rekindle his international revolution. After five centuries as a colony of Portugal, Angola in West Africa was due to receive its independence in November 1975.

Fidel Castro was every word in the book. The longtime Cuban leader was a revolutionary to many, a dictator to many others. A reader and a thinker as well, Castro, who died on Nov. 25 at 90 ...

They had guerillas all over Central Africa. They had military helping ... Partly, it was due to the charisma of Fidel Castro... but it was also because these were people talking about a Communist ...

January 3-15: At a conference of solidarity with the peoples of Africa, Asia and Latin America, Fidel Castro proclaims that "revolutionaries in any corner of the world" can count on the assistance ...

Fidel Castro Ruz was born Aug. 13 ... and dispatched Cuban troops to Africa to fight Western-backed regimes in the 1970s. Over the decades, he sent Cuban doctors abroad to tend to the poor ...

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And for those who are not aware of this chapter, the Argentine guerilla leader Che Guevara, the Cuban communist revolutionary politician Fidel Castro and the anti-apartheid South African president ...

Fidel Castro saw an opportunity to rekindle his international revolution. After five centuries as a colony of Portugal, Angola in West Africa was due to receive its independence in November 1975.