It was whites that were in the minority that ruled the majority of blacks. And that was the law. And that's what the United States stood for. They stood for the segregationists over the democracy. Those persons that were fighting for democracy [in South Africa] were jailed and called the terrorists. We wouldn't stand for that under any other conditions. Right. South Africa, the Cubans were on the side of those that had been oppressed, those that had been denied, those that were living under the apartheid regime. (18:01–18:06)
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Asserts that democracy advocates in South Africa were jailed and labeled as terrorists.
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