A firsthand account of the 1966-68 revolutionary campaign in Bolivia led by Ernesto Che Guevara.
This is the story of Pombo the nom de guerre of Harry Villegas, a young fighter still in his 20s, who was a member of Guevara s general staff. Villegas led the small group of combatants who survived the Bolivian army s encirclement and lived to recount this epic chapter in the history of the Americas.
This book is part of a series, The Cuban Revolution in World Politics.
Preface by Mary-Alice Waters, chronology, glossary, index. Appendix: List of Combatants.

Pombo: A Man of Che's Guerrilla, With Che Guevara in Bolivia 1966-68 (The Cuban Revolution in World Politics)

Biographies & Memoirs

Harry Villegas

Historical

Pathfinder Press (NY)

En la actualidad general de brigada en las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Cuba, Harry Villegas trabajó y luchó durante una década al lado de Ernesto Che Guevara: en Cuba, el Congo y Bolivia. Villegas habla de las luchas en las que participó a lo largo de cuatro décadas, entre ellas la derrota en 1988 del ejército del apartheid sudafricano en Cuito Cuanavale en Angola. Explica, sobre todo, la importancia del legado político de Guevara para una nueva generación de combatientes en el mundo. También disponible en: English Harry Villegas, currently a brigadier general in the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Cuba, worked and fought alongside Ernesto Che Guevara for a decade in Cuba, the Congo, and Bolivia. In these interviews he talks about the struggles he has taken part in over four decades including the war in Angola and the defeat of the South African apartheid army at Cuito Cuanavale in 1988. Above all, he explains the importance of Guevara's political legacy for a new generation of fighters around the world.

Junto a Che Guevara: Entrevistas a Harry Villegas (Pombo) (Spanish Edition)

A través de las historias de estos destacados generales cubanos Néstor López Cuba, Enrique Carreras, José Ramón Fernández y Harry Villegas, que cuentan con casi medio siglo de actividad revolucionaria, vemos la dinámica de clases que ha definido toda nuestra época. Se nos permite comprender cómo el pueblo de Cuba, al luchar por la construcción de una nueva sociedad, ha mantenido a raya a Washington por más de 40 años.Prefacio por Juan Almeida Bosque, introducción por Mary-Alice Waters, sección de fotos de 16 páginas y otros fotos, mapa, notas de glosario, índice, y más lectura. Ahora con tipografía más grande.Through the stories of four outstanding Cuban generals—Néstor López Cuba, Enrique Carreras, José Ramón Fernández, and Harry Villegas—each with close to half a century of revolutionary activity, we can see the class dynamics that shaped the Cuban Revolution and our entire epoch. We understand how the people of Cuba, as they struggle to build a new society, have for four and a half decades held Washington at bay.Preface by Juan Almeida Bosque, introduction by Mary-Alice Waters, 16-page photo section plus additional photos, map, glossary, notes, index. Now with enlarged type.

Haciendo historia: Entrevistas con cuatro generales de las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Cuba (Spanish Edition)

History

Mary-Alice Waters

José Ramón Fernández

Enrique Carreras

Néstor López Cuba

Americas

When we face new and unexpected challenges we will always be able to recall the epic of Angola with gratitude. Without Angola we would not be as strong as we are today. RAÚL CASTRO, MAY 1991
 Beginning in 1975 an epic battle was waged for the future of southern Africa. The Angolan people had just thrown off 500 years of Portuguese colonial brutality. Now South Africa s white supremacist regime, spurred by Washington, had invaded Angola. Its goal: to impose a government beholden to Pretoria and imperialism.
 Angola s government appealed for help. The response of Cuba s leadership was immediate and decisive. A hard-fought war for freedom ended in 1988 at the battle of Cuito Cuanavale, with the crushing defeat of South Africa s army by Angolan, Cuban, and Namibian combatants.
 This is the story of Cuba s unparalleled contribution to the fight to free Africa from the scourge of apartheid. And how, in the doing, Cuba s socialist revolution also was strengthened.
 Also Available in: Spanish

Cuba and Angola the War for Freedom

Africa

Pathfinder Press

“En los nuevos e inesperados desafíos, siempre podremos evocar la epopeya de Angola con gratitud, porque sin Angola no seríamos tan fuertes como somos hoy”. —RAÚL CASTRO, MAYO DE 1991 A partir de 1975 se llevó a cabo una batalla épica por el futuro del sur de África. El pueblo de Angola apenas se había librado de 500 años de brutalidad colonial portuguesa. Ahora el régimen supremacista blanco de Sudáfrica, atizado por Washington, había invadido Angola. Su meta: imponer un gobierno sometido a Pretoria y al imperialismo. El gobierno de Angola pidió ayuda. La respuesta de la dirección cubana fue inmediata y decisiva. Una dura guerra por la libertad culminó en 1988 con la batalla de Cuito Cuanavale y la aplastante derrota del ejército sudafricano por los combatientes angolanos, cubanos y namibios. Esta es la historia de la contribución inédita de Cuba a la lucha para liberar a África del azote del apartheid. Y de cómo, al hacerlo, se fortaleció la revolución socialista cubana.  Also Available in: English

Cuba y angola la guerra por la libertad (Spanish Edition)

Through the stories of four outstanding Cuban generals—Néstor López Cuba, Enrique Carreras, José Ramón Fernández, and Harry Villegas—each with close to half a century of revolutionary activity, we can see the class dynamics that have shaped our entire epoch. We can understand how the people of Cuba, as they struggle to build a new society, have for more than forty years held Washington at bay. Index, Glossary, Photos  Also available in: English, Spanish

Making History: Interviews with Four Generals of Cuba's Revolutionary Armed Forces [Farsi Edition]

Talaye Porsoo

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