45 years after Operation Carlota, many are the Cubans who remember their arrival in the Republic of Angola to fight alongside the locals for independence in a noble gesture of altruism and solidarity.
Julio Cano Rodríguez is one of those men who contributed to this cause.
The contribution of Cuba to the liberation of Angola is an internationally recognized fact, one of the most glorious pages in the history of Cuban solidarity and which once again demonstrated the stature of leader and military strategist of the Commander in Chief, Fidel Castro. Ruz.
Cuba only brought its dead from Angola and the satisfaction of having fulfilled an elementary internationalist duty as Fidel assured because for the people of José Martí: “Homeland is humanity.”
