title: Cuba and Angola the War for Freedom
author: Harry Villegas
description: Harry Villegas is a brigadier general of Cuba s Revolutionary Armed Forces. He is known the world over as Pombo, the nom de guerre given him by Ernesto Che Guevara, at whose side he worked and fought in Cuba, the Congo, and Bolivia.
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  For John Gratz
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  > [Title Page](index_split_000.html#filepos205)
  
  > [Dedication](index_split_001.html#filepos295)
  
  > [Josef: Berlin, Germany—1938](index_split_003.html#filepos8338)
  
  > [Isabel: Just outside Havana, Cuba—1994](index_split_004.html#filepos16833)
  
  > [Mahmoud: Aleppo, Syria—2015](index_split_005.html#filepos24766)
  
  > [Josef: Berlin, Germany—1939](index_split_006.html#filepos33976)
  
  > [Isabel: Havana, Cuba—1994](index_split_007.html#filepos43981)
  
  > [Mahmoud: Aleppo, Syria—2015](index_split_008.html#filepos50744)
  
  > [Josef: On a Train to Hamburg,
  > Germany—1939](index_split_009.html#filepos56414)
  
  > [Isabel: Just outside Havana, Cuba—1994](index_split_010.html#filepos65942)
  
  > [Mahmoud: Aleppo, Syria—2015](index_split_011.html#filepos79692)
  
  > [Josef: Somewhere on the Atlantic
  > Ocean—1939](index_split_012.html#filepos90090)
  
  > [Isabel: Just outside Havana, Cuba—1994](index_split_013.html#filepos95427)
  
  > [Mahmoud: J