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The dialectical dual role of the Communist woman. Oppressed, despised and abused under capitalist dictatorships, she could depend on the mighty ruling parties of the Socialist Bloc and Liberation Struggles such as FRELIMO of Mozambique to stand by her. This is why even when she was in appearance most helpless, her captors feared her most as the future proletarian ruling party. Even when tactically defeated in one nation and subject to the daily indignities of slavery, they took solace in the world advance of the liberation movement.

Compatriot Chilean woman, fighter and firm defender of peace and the happiness of your people, your daily combat is the key that will open the path to soon return to the homeland. We greet you from this solidarity land hoping that the 8th of March, International Women's Day, will be a victorious day against fascism that suffocates and represses the freedom of our people. For this reason, with strength, we will overcome!

A fraternal embrace,

Mozambique, March 1983.

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Description of the Document This is a handwritten letter (on illustrated paper with a colorful drawing of a mother embracing a child) sent from Mozambique in March 1983 to a Chilean woman addressed as "Sra. Apolonia Ramirez" in Santiago, Chile. It includes a Mozambican postage stamp and a postmark from Maputo (the capital of Mozambique).

Historical Context The letter is an act of international solidarity during a time of political repression in Chile under Augusto Pinochet's military dictatorship (1973–1990). In 1983, opposition to the regime was growing, including strong participation from women's movements protesting human rights abuses, economic hardship, and the loss of democracy.

Mozambique, having gained independence in 1975 under the socialist FRELIMO government, was aligned with leftist causes worldwide and often expressed support for struggles against fascism, imperialism, and dictatorship—including solidarity with Chileans opposing Pinochet.

Sent on the occasion of International Women's Day (March 8), the message encourages a Chilean woman activist (by framing her struggle as key to overcoming repression and restoring freedom. It reflects transnational leftist solidarity networks common in the 1980s, where newly independent African nations like Mozambique supported Latin American anti-dictatorship movements.

Mozambique’s ruling party candidate, Daniel Chapo, has been declared the winner of the country’s presidential election amid claims of rigging by the opposition. Chapo, from the Frelimo party which has been in power for almost half a century, secured more than 70 percent of the votes, the National Election Commission (CNE) said on Thursday.

1.On this day in 1975, Cuba began Operation Carlota, its most important military internationalist mission in Africa. It was a major undertaking that contributed to the defeat of the apartheid military regime in South Africa & the independence of Angola & Namibia. More of the story:

2.Across Africa, Cuba provided military instructors & doctors, helping rebels gain their independence from Europeans. After the Portuguese dictatorship fell in 1974 & Portugal prepared to grant Angola independence on Nov. 11, 1975, three local movements fought to take power.

3.The largest rebel group with most popular support was the People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA). They were providing critical training & safe haven to other national liberation forces like the ANC (South Africa), SWAPO (Namibia), and FRELIMO (Mozambique).

4.In early November, the Apartheid South African Army was advancing 45 miles per day toward the capital Luanda. South Africa’s invasion endangered not only Angola’s revolution, but the struggle for liberation throughout the continent.

5.The racists wanted to install a puppet regime led by CIA collaborator Jonas Savimbi who would be ok with white rule in South The MPLA leaders, then understood that only an urgent appeal for international solidarity would enable them to fight of this invasion & secure independence.

6.The Angolans had one unlikely country they could turn to: Cuba. They had already provided military instructors to assist the MPLA. The answer came less than 48 hours later on Nov. 5. Yes. Fidel Castro & the Communist Party of Cuba reached its decision without thinking twice.

7.On another Nov 5 in 1843, a slave called Black Carlota, working on the Triunvirato plantation in the Matanzas region, took up her machete in a slave rebellion in which she lost her life. It was in homage to her that the solidarity action in Angola bore her name: Operation Carlota.

8.On Nov. 7, the first 82 soldiers, carrying light artillery, left to Angola. Over the coming weeks more than 10,000 Cuban troops would land in Angola. More than a decade later, at the end of apartheid, there would be as many as 36,000 troops fighting against the apartheid forces.

9.By the end of 1975, Cuban troops had routed the apartheid army & prevented their takeover of the country. The world owes Cuba and these internationalist soldiers a huge debt.

10.Cuban negotiator, Jorge Risquet and the defence of Cuito Cunavale.

FRELIMO completou 60 anos de existência

FRELIMO completou 60 anos de existência. A Frente de Libertação de Moçambique (FRELIMO), o partido que dirigiu a luta pela libertação de Moçambique e que dirige o estado moçambicano desde a proclamação da independência, há 47 anos, comemora este ano 60 anos de existência, desde a sua fundação, na Tanzânia, em 1962.   A FRELIMO e os seus erros O percurso histórico da FRELIMO, o partido que…