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Angola

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Cuba's National Capitol Building, January 2010.

Central America and Caribbean

Cuba

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Southern Africa

Namibia

Cuba and Southern Africa

Aerial view of National Mall

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Botha, R. F. (Roelof Frederik) ("Pik")

1932-

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Risquet, Jorge

1930- 2015

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Crocker, Chester A.

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Van-Dunem, Afonso ("M'Binda")

1941- 2014

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Aldana, Carlos

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A photo of Henry Kissinger from 1975

Kissinger, Henry

1923-

Photograph of Gorbachev-Bush summit at Malta, 1989

End of the Cold War

Todor Zhivkov Collection

South African Nuclear History

Handshake between Mao Zedong and Richard Nixon

Sino-American Cooperation, 1972-1989

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July 1986	Arnaldo Ochoa to Konstantin Kurochkin General Arnaldo Ochoa was Cuba’s deputy minister of defense in charge of military missions abroad; General Konstantin Kurochkin was first deputy head of the Main Directorate of Personnel of the Soviet General Staff and a former head of the Soviet Military Mission in Angola.
June 17, 1986	Memorandum of Conversation between Raúl Castro and Jorge Risquet Raúl Castro was Cuba’s defense minister; Jorge Risquet was Fidel Castro’s point man for Angola.
June 9, 1986	Memorandum of Conversation between Jorge Risquet and Joe Slovo Jorge Risquet was Castro’s point man for Angola; Joe Slovo was the general secretary of the South African Communist Party and the chief of staff of Umkontho We Sizwe , the military wing of the ANC.
October 18, 1985	Cuban Military Mission in Angola, Report on Combat Operations, 'Informe del desarrollo de las acciones combativas en la dirección ‘Cuito Cuanavale - Mavinga,’ dentro del marco de la Operación II Congreso del MPLA-PT' Report of the Cuban Military Mission in Angola on the FAPLA offensive in southeast Angola against the UNITA rebel forces led by Jonas Savimbi.
March 29, 1984	Memorandum of Telephone Conversation between Víctor Schueg and Elio Avila Trujillo General Víctor Schueg of the Ministry of Defense in Havana and General Elio Avila Trujillo of the Cuban Military Mission in Angola discuss the 25 March battle of Sumbe in Angola.
December 9, 1983	Cuban Ministry of Armed Forces, Report on the Battle of Cangamba, 'Experiencias de las acciones combativas de Cangamba' The Cuban defense ministry’s analysis of the battle of Cangamba.
May 15, 1981	Notes on Meeting between South African Minister of Foreign Affairs R. F. Botha and US President Reagan South African Minister of Foreign Affairs "Pik" Botha and President Reagan meet in Washington, DC. South African Ambassador Sole, the note taker, interprets Reagan's friendly opening comments as "the inference clearly being that he had no illusions about democratic rule in Africa." They discuss the situation in Namibia and Angola, and their shared opposition to Soviet and communist influence in the region. Botha also asks Reagan to help South Africa's souring relations with France regarding nuclear cooperation. Botha states that "South Africa was not preparing or intending to explode a nuclear device, but[...] could not afford publicly to surrender this option."
September 10, 1980	Minutes of Conversation between Todor Zhivkov and Samora Machel Both leaders discuss recent developments in Mozambique, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Angola, East Timor, Western Sahara, Poland, and Afghanistan.