Editing Pierre Trudeau (section)

==== Cuba ====
Trudeau was known as a friend of [[Fidel Castro]], the leader of Cuba. In January 1976, Trudeau visited Cuba to meet Castro and shouted to a crowd in [[Havana]] "''Viva Cuba! Viva Castro!''" ("Long Live Cuba! Long Live Castro!").{{sfn|Granatstein|Bothwell|1991|p=274}} In November 1975, [[Cuban intervention in Angola|Cuba had intervened]] in the [[Angolan Civil War]] on the side of the Marxist [[MPLA]] government supported by the Soviet Union which was fighting against the [[UNITA]] and [[National Liberation Front of Angola|FNLA]] guerrilla movements supported by the United States, South Africa and [[Zaire]] (the present-day [[Democratic Republic of the Congo]]).{{sfn|Granatstein|Bothwell|1991|p=274}} Although both Zaire and South Africa had also intervened in Angola, sending in troops to support the FLNA and UNITA respectively, it was the Cuban intervention in Angola that caused controversy in the West. Many people in the West saw the Cuban intervention as aggression and a power play by the Soviet Union to win a sphere of influence in Africa.{{sfn|Granatstein|Bothwell|1991|p=274}} Angola was amply endowed with oil, and many saw the victory of the MPLA/Cuban forces in the first round of the Angolan civil war in 1975–1976 as a major blow to Western interests in Africa. Trudeau's remarks in Havana were widely seen in the West as expressing approval not only of Cuba's Communist government, but also of the Cuban intervention in Angola.{{sfn|Granatstein|Bothwell|1991|p=274}} In fact, Trudeau did press Castro in private to pull his troops out of Angola, only for Castro to insist that Cuba would do so only when South Africa likewise pulled its forces out of not only Angola, but also [[South West Africa]] (modern-day [[Namibia]]).{{sfn|Granatstein|Bothwell|1991|p=275}} Trudeau's embrace of Castro attracted much criticism in the United States, which allowed Trudeau to appear as a leader who was "standing up" to the United States without seriously damaging American-Canadian relations.{{sfn|Granatstein|Bothwell|1991|p=274}}