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Cuban solidarity and internationalist
efforts praised in Angola
LUANDA.—Cuba pays a high price today for defending
its independence and continuing its solidarity and
internationalist work, Juliao Mateus Paulo Dino
Matrosse, secretary-general of the
People's Movement for
the
Liberation of
Angola (MPLA) Party stated.
Dino Matrosse made such statements to the press in
Luanda, in the context of recently declassified
documents which reveled that former U.S. Secretary
of State, Henry A. Kissinger, formulated secret
plans to launch air strikes on Cuba in 1976, in
response to having sent a military contingent to
Angola.
According to PL, Dino Matrosse stated that,
“Cuba continues to be punished for its international
efforts and for defending the rights of its people,
its independence and those countries also fighting
for their freedom.”
He recalled that Cuba’s decision to support the MPLA
led to a “solid and indestructible” history of
friendship and fraternity, emphasizing that the
country “stood in solidarity with the noble cause of
the Angolan people, giving their full support even
with the loss of men in the field. This friendship
has become indestructible and is continually
strengthened.”
The documents, belonging to the Gerald R. Ford
Presidential Library, were declassified following a
request from a group of U.S. researchers from the
National Security Archives and were published
October 1 in the New York Times.
The material reveals that Kissinger convened a group
of senior U.S. officials to work on possible
retaliatory measures against Cuba for deploying
military forces to Angola, following a request from
the country’s government.
The New York Times revealed that the
officials outlined plans to attack ports and
military installations in Cuba, including a plan to
send marine battalions to the United States Navy
base at Guantanamo Bay, illegally occupied by the
U.S. since 1902.
The plan concocted by the former Secretary of State,
during President Gerald Ford’s term in office,
suggested the use of dozens of combat aircrafts and
the mining of Cuban ports.
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