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Elio Delgado-Legon: I am a Cuban who has lived for 76 years, therefore I know full well how life was before the revolution, having experienced it directly and indirectly. As a result, it hurts me to read so many aspersions cast upon a government that fights tooth and nail to provide us a better life. If it hasn’t fully been able to do so, this is because of the many obstacles that have been put in its way.
Fighting in Angola from a Distance
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Elio Delgado Legon
Cubans and Angolans. Foto: pr.indymedia.org
Cubans and Angolans. Foto: pr.indymedia.org
HAVANA TIMES — Thousands of Cubans – both civilians and members of the military – voluntarily travelled to Angola to defend the freedom of its people, once seriously threatened by the racist South African regime. I was mobilized several times to receive training as a militiaman and asked if I was willing to go into combat in Angola. I said I was, but they never called me (from what I’ve been told, because I was a professor at the University of Havana).
When my son Elio was enlisted in the military, he asked to be sent to Angola.
It was the beginning of 1983 and the war was at its height. My son had been in training for more than two months when his first daughter was born. He asked the military for permission to say farewell to his family and went to the hospital to see the newborn. A few days later, he left for Angola, to join a contingent where he was to serve two years of military service.
http://www.havanatimes.org/?p=105323
Fighting in Angola from a Distance
August 5, 2014 | Print Print | 0 11 0 16
Elio Delgado Legon
Cubans and Angolans. Foto: pr.indymedia.org
Cubans and Angolans. Foto: pr.indymedia.org
HAVANA TIMES — Thousands of Cubans – both civilians and members of the military – voluntarily travelled to Angola to defend the freedom of its people, once seriously threatened by the racist South African regime. I was mobilized several times to receive training as a militiaman and asked if I was willing to go into combat in Angola. I said I was, but they never called me (from what I’ve been told, because I was a professor at the University of Havana).
When my son Elio was enlisted in the military, he asked to be sent to Angola.
It was the beginning of 1983 and the war was at its height. My son had been in training for more than two months when his first daughter was born. He asked the military for permission to say farewell to his family and went to the hospital to see the newborn. A few days later, he left for Angola, to join a contingent where he was to serve two years of military service.
http://www.havanatimes.org/?p=105323
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