Jumping the timetable to the 7 th April when I first entered Angola, I want to enlarge our personal story with the historical events related to the struggle for independence within Angola and the role of the Cubans. The contribution of the Cubans to the end of apartheid is acknowledged by African leaders but largely hidden for the European public. Working for a South African Company in Angola we were finding ourselves on the wrong side of the political divide. Knowing the country and its people from first hand experience I have observed the aftermath of the indepence struggle in some detail and the international solidarity of Cuba has made a deep impression on me.
The chronological account below is based on extracts from 1 an article by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, first published in the magazine Tricontinental, edition 53, of [GGM], 2 letters written by Pepa to her parents [Pepa], 3 some eyewitness reports of the battles around Luanda in Jan talking with locals during an orientative field trip April [Angola-fieldtrip].
This will be a countrywide appraisal for uranium. For the first stage until November of this year there is a budget of Rand Without counting personal friends already made with the Portuguese, for example with the 2nd head of the Institute of atomic energy in Lisbon, who it seems that we have known him throughout life, anyway I am not going to tell everything in detail but people in Angola welcomed us very well and it is sure that we will live there for them.
Jan has to go to the United States to visit typical uranium deposits [Pepa]. Luanda - boulevard that runs along the coast [Luanda-boulevard] Note the offices of the BCCI bank from Saudi Arabia, t his fraudulent bank was a cover for CIA operations in Afghanistan in the 70ties and 80ties. Bibi seems to me to take it to a nursery of dogs "Cannels" will not think of anything better. Ana was looking after the House and plants and the office I'm going to give a scare when I tell them that I'm going on vacation.
And this is the story of always going from one side to another Angola was a Portuguese colony with problems of terrorists on the border with Congo Brazaville , but it has nothing to do with the area where they work and although within five or ten years Portugal may have to give the independence at this time there is none of that.
