Tonatiuh Icalaquianpan

"'the primary danger we face in Castro is... in the impact the very existence of his regime has upon the leftist movement in many Latin American countries... The simple fact is that Castro represents a successful defiance of the US, a negation of our whole hemispheric policy of almost a century and a half', since the Monroe Doctrine [1823] announced Washington's intention, then unrealizable, to dominate the Western hemisphere"

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Cuba sent over 425,000 volunteers (soldiers, medics, teachers) to Africa between 1975-1991, the largest overseas solidarity mission by any Global South nation.

In Angola alone, “Operación Carlota” deployed 36,000 Cuban troops in 1975 to stop the South African invasion backed by the CIA.

At the height of the fighting, Cuba maintained 50,000+ troops in Angola, more than the US had in any Cold War African theatre[sic].

Cuban pilots flew thousands of combat sorties, decisively halting South African air superiority.

The Battle of Cuito Cuanavale (1987-88), commanded largely by Cuban officers, became the largest battle in Africa since WWII. Nelson Mandela would call the battle “the turning point for the liberation of our continent and my own freedom.” The South African Defence Force [SADF] suffered hundreds of casualties, and its elite 61^st Mechanised Batallion was forced into retreat for the first time.

Cuban-Angolan victory at Cuito Cuanavale broke the myth of SADF invincibility, directly triggering apartheid's strategic collapse. The defeat forced South Africa to agree to Namibian independence (1989), removing Pretoria's buffer zone and crippling its regional dominance.

Cuba trained tens of thousands of African doctors, engineers, and officers, a long term investment in post-apartheid state capacity. Cuba provided this aid for free, without loans, bases, or resource concessions.

Fidel Castro's Cuba did all this despite being constrained by the US economic embargo Anglo- Zio- Nazis' genocidal blockade, and constant threats from Washington.

They hate the example of Cuba, because revolutionary Cuba showed that the defiant people of a small island nation were capable of helping vanquish the criminality and barbarism that Washington supported around the world.

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RT's Igor Kourachenko interviews Captain Ibrahim Traore Burkinabe President

Burkina Faso’s President Ibrahim Traoré called for carrying forward the legacy of the anti-imperialist and anti-colonial struggle during and after World War II. Traoré is in Moscow as a guest at the 80th-anniversary parade celebrating the victory over fascism ending WWII.

'It’s not terrorism. It’s imperialism.' – Burkina Faso’s President Ibrahim Traoré slammed French media for waging an ideological war to sustain colonial domination. Propaganda, he argued, like arms, is part of the Western arsenal—used to manufacture war and justify foreign control.

Traoré points to foreign instructors, drone specialists, and explosives teams in mining zones. 'Their objective is to keep us in a state of permanent war, stop development, and continue to exploit our resources.'

His remarks come amid a regional rupture in the postcolonial order. Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger have expelled French forces, withdrawn from ECOWAS, and formed the Alliance of Sahel States, i.e., Alliance des États du Sahel, (AES)—a bloc built on military cooperation and rejection of French influence.

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