{"id":3704,"date":"2016-11-28T14:21:14","date_gmt":"2016-11-28T13:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3704"},"modified":"2016-11-28T14:21:14","modified_gmt":"2016-11-28T13:21:14","slug":"cubans-in-angola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/3704\/","title":{"rendered":"Cubans in Angola"},"content":{"rendered":"

A good piece on Fidel Castro from Bayou Renaissance Man<\/a>, who is originally South African:<\/p>\n

I was standing in the Angolan bush, along with a group of UNITA rebels. \u00a0They were cleaning up after a firefight – which meant leaving the enemy bodies where they had fallen, but stripping them of their weapons, uniforms and supplies. \u00a0Everything would be washed, cleaned, repaired if necessary, and reissued to new owners, who would use it to kill more of the enemy.<\/p>\n

Among the dead were two very young Cuban conscripts, some of the tens of thousands of troops sent by Fidel Castro to prop up the brutal pro-Communist regime in Angola. They were probably well under 20 years old. \u00a0They hadn’t even finished growing; \u00a0they still had that gangling, slightly disjointed look of late adolescence. \u00a0Both looked as if they didn’t yet need to shave every day. \u00a0They never would, now. \u00a0Their AK-47’s were still half-slung. \u00a0They hadn’t even managed to raise them to a firing position before the RPD bullets found them.<\/p>\n

A grizzled NCO looked down at them, and an odd look came over his face. He spat to one side, very expressively, and murmured, “Just one more. That’s all I ask. \u00a0Just one more.”<\/p>\n

I looked at him, and my eyebrows rose. \u00a0He caught my expression, and nodded. \u00a0“I want the bastard who sends kids like this over here to die.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It makes you wonder how many of those who complain about American forces deployed around the world had no problem with Fidel Casto sending his army to Angola. \u00a0The fact that Cubans had no choice in the matter makes it that much worse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A good piece on Fidel Castro from Bayou Renaissance Man, who is originally South African: I was standing in the Angolan bush, along with a group of UNITA rebels. \u00a0They were cleaning up after a firefight – which meant leaving … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[92,40],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3704"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3705,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3704\/revisions\/3705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}