Angola

Filming military history

January 2, 2012

Cuban state media provides a brief history in a recent article on the Sección Fílmica del Departamento de Instrucción de las FAR (Film Section of the Department of Instruction of the Cuban Armed Forces) created in 1967, which filmed the Cuban military’s missions in Algeria, Guinea, Syria, Angola, Nicaragua, and Vietnam for propaganda purposes. (See here for [...]

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Angolan military delegation visits Havana

October 5, 2011

Via Cuban state media: Army General Raúl Castro met with an Angolan military delegation, led by Angolan Chief of Staff, Army Corps General Geraldo Sachipengo. The meeting took place during a recess of the visitors’ work session with Cuban First Vice President Jose Ramon Machado Ventura. The Angolan military group concluded on Monday its visit to Havana. [...]

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Boosting military ties

August 8, 2011

Cuban Defense Minister, Army Corps General Julio Casas Regueiro met with his Angolan counterpart Candido Pereira Dos Santos Van Dunem and “signed an accord recognizing the working parameters to strengthen and grow cooperation between the two armies,” reports Cuban state media.

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Medical diplomacy

May 14, 2010

The Financial Times has posted a report on the Cuban government’s medical diplomacy abroad: Such “medical diplomacy” has been part of Cuba’s foreign policy almost since the revolution – and has grown in intensity over the past few years, fuelled above all by strong demand from Venezuela. In some of the most remote and neglected parts of [...]

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Military attaché highlights co-operation between armed forces

December 3, 2009

Cuban Embassy military attaché in Angola, Brigade General Rafael Moracen Limonta, on Wednesday in Luanda highlighted the continuity of the co-operation between the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR) and the Angolan Armed Forces (FAA), as well as between FAR and countries of the southern African region in various sectors. The diplomat spoke during FAR’s 53rd [...]

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Miscellany…

February 5, 2008

Angola and Cuba sign a police cooperation accord. Nickel surpasses tourism in earnings for Cuba. Mexico’s ex-Foreign Minister Jorge Casta

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