Guillermo and Cruz Domínguez Fuentes are on the list of the nearly 300,000 Cubans who participated in Operation Carlota, and today, 31 years after the repatriation to Cuba of the mortal remains of their comrades in struggle, they cannot ignore the passages of the war in Angola. Three brothers left home in November 1975 as part of the 120-millimeter mortar brigade, Guillermo told the Cuban News Agency, and on November 12 we lost Aristides in an ambush, it was very hard ... that day was our baptism of fire in which we had 29 casualties between wounded and dead, of which five were pine. The other difficult moment was when Cruz and I separated, we shared the same trench and we did not know more about each other until we set foot on land in the port of Mariel, I was worried about the confrontation with my mother ... what did I tell the old woman if he came alone, he said. With eyes moistened by the memory, Cruz alludes to the lack of experience in combat of the magnitude that they had to fight on Angolan soil, although he recognized that that war united them as combatants. We had the honor of participating later in a command where we captured for the first time in the history of Africa the first two officers of the South African army, which made it possible to unmask the government of South Africa and its collusion with the United States to attack Angola, he said with healthy pride. We were in areas of intense enemy activity of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), which, supported by South Africa, the US and Zaire, carried out many sabotages with the intention of dislocating our weapons, but we fulfilled the mission entrusted to us. the Commander in Chief, he recalled. Today we tell the new generations that this Socialist Revolution cannot be lost or handed over to the enemy ... we are a continuation of the legacy of Céspedes, Maceo, Gómez, Martí and Fidel, who taught us that weapons are not surrendered without fighting, said the member of the Association of Combatants of the Cuban Revolution. The event was chaired by the highest authorities of the special municipality, who accompanied the relatives of those who offered their lives in defense of humanity
Angola united us as combatants
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