Word: guinea-bissau
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...significance of this statement can only fully be understood when the interaction that Portugal Guinea, and Guinea-Bissau (to the Portuguese, Guinea-Bissau is "Portuguese Guinea") as well as Mozambique and Angola experience is explained. Mozambique, Angola and Guinea-Bissau are categorized by Europeans as "Colonies" of Portugal. Portugal is a very poor country with few natural resources. She is able to export very little. In order to maintain an economic position above bankruptcy, she must depend upon external aid for support. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization supports her to a large extent (especially military) but she receives the bulk...
...liberation. In the Congress of African People's news release, the fact was brought to national attention that Portugal had been reprimanded by the United Nations' Security Council for attacks into Guinea and Senegal prior to the November 22nd military advancement. As recently as October 1970, the Republic of Guinea charged before the United Nations General Assembly that white mercenaries and nationless Africans were being trained in Guinea-Bissau for an attack. The situation was left to continue by the United Nations...
...PAIGC (Partido Africano de Indepencia da Guine e Cabol Verde) claims to have control of two-thirds of the land of Guinea-Bissau. What this means is that Portugal's dominant position is severely endangered and that Africans are gaining control of their countries. Portugal attacked Guinea to retain her control of Guinea-Bissau and to maintain a position of colonial domination in Mozambique and Angola. foundation of support outside Guinea-Bissau...
...attack against the independent state of Guinea, Portugal intended to destroy the foundation of the PAIGC, to release political prisoners of the DPG (Democratic Party of Guinea-the national party of Guinea) which supports the struggle in Guinea-Bissau and shares a border with Guinea-Bissau, to shake severely the free government of Guinea and undermine/destroy its position of aiding the independence movement of the PAIGC in Guinea-Bissau. Another reason for this blatant act of oppression is to launch an attack against the leaders of Pan-Africanism which Portugal recognizes as in opposition to her thieving actions...
...were captured. Three Europeans -including a five-year-old Yugoslav girl -were killed in the fighting, which went on for some 40 hours in the capital. Lisbon denied any Portuguese connection. In a similar episode, however, Portuguese aircraft recently bombed Senegalese border villages from which guerrillas had been attacking Guinea-Bissau (the attacks quickly ceased...