Above: Female Cuban soldiers were crucial in the battle against Apartheid in Angola
Saturday 20 September 2.00pm-4.30pm
BFI Southbank (near Royal Festival Hall) Belvedere Road SE1
Tube: Waterloo.Admission £5.00 Box office 0207 928 3232 website: www.bfi.org.uk
The full story of Cuba’s direct and continuing influence on the history of the world is not widely known . In Africa Cuban direct action has been more crucial than anywhere else.
How many people know that Che Guevara, had crossed Lake Tanganyika in a boat with an armed escort, initiating a Cuban military presence that lasted more than 26 years, and which was undoubtedly crucial to the liberation of at least half a dozen countries, especially South Africa.
At the same time, the extraordinary initiative of the Cuban doctors was developed and expanded until it has become a rational, comprehensive and full frontal world-historical attack on preventable disease and the diseases of poverty. This is a one off chance to see a rare and exciting film about how the ‘Third World’ freed itself from colonialism