Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1959-1976This is a compelling and dramatic account of Cuban policy in Africa from 1959 to 1976 and of its escalating clash with U. S. policy toward the continent. Piero Gleijeses's fast paced narrative takes the reader from Cuba's first steps to assist Algerian rebels fighting France in 1961, to the secret war between Havana and Washington in Zaire in 1964 65 where 100 Cubans led by Che Guevara clashed with 1,000 mercenaries controlled by the CIA and, finally,