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A 6 page overview of the African counterinsurgency efforts launched in the 1960s and early 1970s by Portugal. Relates the need for such efforts to the oppressive hand Portugal had levied on the continent for generations. Provides specifics of her airplanes and strategies. Bibliography lists 4
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6 pages (~225 words per page)
File: AM2_PPportAf.rtf
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best characterized by turbulence and counterinsurgency. Although the Portuguese initially arrived in Africa during the fifteenth century and had enjoyed a long colonial history on the continent, that history
was soon to end. The Portuguese presence, a presence continued under a dictatorial rule that dated to the 1920s, were heavily resented in Africa. As a consequence they
became the targets of heavy guerrilla warfare launched by the insurgents of Africa. The costs of this warfare were tremendous both in terms of human life lost and invested
and in terms of monetary and diplomatic costs. The costs were directly related, however, to the oppressive hand Portugal had played in Africa for generations.
In actuality the conditions leading to the insurgency in Africa in the 1960s and 1970s had been in play for some time. These conditions were related
to the mind set where the powerful exploit the less powerful. In Mozambique this scenario had been in play since the slave trade of earlier centuries. Even after
slavery the Portuguese who had colonized Mozambique, for example, continued to capitalize on the indigenous peoples by putting them to work in the gold mines of South Africa (Dana and
France 67). Although these laborers were paid, they were successful in keeping very little of their wages (Dana and France 67). The Portuguese would continue their system of
forced labor on plantations, motor ways and the railroad in Mozambique and elsewhere in Africa (Dana and France 67). Portuguese dependence
on its colony insured a continued exploitation of the people (Dana and France 67). After World War II the emphasis shifted to cotton production, a production which depended on
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