May 7 commemorates the seventieth anniversary of the victory of the Vietnamese people in the battle of Dien Bien Phu, which ended French colonial power throughout the Indochinese peninsula. This battle, together with the Algerian war of independence concluded in 1962 and the battle of Cuito Cuanavale that ended in November 1988 due to the joint action of the Cuban-Angolan ...
By Sergio Rodriguez Gelfenstein * “Our mountains will always exist, our rivers will always exist, our people will always exist. With the American invaders defeated, we will rebuild our land to make it ten times more beautiful […] Our Homeland will be reunified. Our compatriots from the North and South will meet under the same sky,” President Ho Chi Minh ...