Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A 1960, Cuba ta aika da rundunar gaggawa zuwa Chile don taimakawa farfadowa daga girgizar kasa ta Valdivia. An fara shirin a hukumance a 1963 a matsayin wani bangare na manufofin kasashen waje na Cuba na tallafawa gwagwarmayar yaki da mulkin mallaka. Ya fara ne lokacin da Cuba ta aika da karamin brigade na likitanci zuwa Algeria, wanda ya sha wahala daga janyewar ma'aikatan likitancin Faransa a lokacin yakin Algerian na Independence
An kuma dawo da wasu sojoji da aka ji wa rauni da kuma marayu na yaƙi zuwa Cuba don magani. Cuba ta sami damar aiwatar da wannan shirin duk da cewa rabin likitocin kasar 6,000 sun tsere bayan juyin juya halin Cuba. Tsakanin 1966 da 1974, likitocin Cuba sun yi aiki tare da bindigogin Cuba a Guinea-Bissau yayin yakin neman 'yancin kai da Portugal. Babban kamfen na kasashen waje na Cuba ya kasance a Angola inda, a 1977, shekaru biyu bayan fara kamfen, lardin Angola daya ne kawai daga cikin goma sha shida ba tare da kwararrun likitocin Cuba ba. Bayan 1979, Cuba kuma ta haɓaka dangantaka mai ƙarfi tare da Nicaragua.