Cuba recalls the internationalists killed in Cassinga

Cuba recalls the internationalists killed in Cassinga

47 years after the Cassinga massacre, an indelible crime in African history, we pay tribute to the courageous Cuban internationalists’, said the head of the Cuban diplomacy in X. The fighters ‘confronted apartheid racists to save the Namibian brothers’, he said. This, the foreign minister said, was a contribution to the ties between Africa and Cuba that endure. On May 4, 1978, a South African helicopter-borne unit perpetrated an attack against t…

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Slavery in the Caribbean was anything but a civilizing mission, it was a system of violence, exploitation, and relentless suffering that lasted over 300 years. In Cuba, where the sugar economy thrived on the backs of enslaved Africans, generations lived and died under the weight of chains. But among the oppressed were those who refused […] TalkAfricana

Cuba’s foreign minister, Bruno Rodríguez, today evoked the island’s internationalists who fell into the Cassinga massacre. “47 years after the Cassinga massacre, an indelible crime in African history, we pay tribute to the courageous Cuban internationalists,” said the head of Cuban diplomacy in X. According to him, the fighters “fighted apartheid racists to save the Namibian brothers.” That, the chancellor said, was a contribution to the links b…

Havana, May 4 (RHC) Cuba's Foreign Minister, Bruno Rodríguez, this Sunday evoked the island's internationalists who fell into the Cassinga massacre.