Journal Question #2

The most important things from my country that I want all American know are: the Angola’s civil war and democracy. Decades of war, first Angolans against Portuguese colonial and later against each other, but the civil war started since independence from Portugal in 1975.neutralized and traumatized a country. The country is rich in minerals resources such as: oil, diamonds, gold, iron ore, uranium, manganese, copper, zinc, wolfram, tin, granite, quartz, feldspar, kaolin, fertile soil and other. There are two main controversial political parts: one is Marxist supported by Soviet Union and Cuba while anti-Marxist supported by United States, South Africa and China. The Angolan’s victims of the war are citizens more than 600,000 dead, and 3 million refugees. Many attempts were made to find peace during the conflict In 992 election took place but one of them refused to accept the results and restarted to fighting until 2008. On September, 2008 the second election took place, and know the Country is democratic, however, it still weak. Angola economy are growing, is the fourth largest producer of diamonds in the world; nevertheless, the economy is highest dependent on oil producer. Angola is the first oil producer in Sub-Sahara Africa overtook Nigeria place on May 2008. Now, the country is in reconstruction, resettlement of displaced persons and agriculture are growing in high rate. Similarly to the industries, they are growing in bidding and investing processes. To sum up, It is very important, for people particularly American to know about Angola’s history, potentially because it could be good not only for economic relationship but also for friendly relationship between Angolan and American.