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Into Cuba: The embargo must go.
The subject of Cuba and U.S. policy toward that troubled and ill- governed island has surfaced again in the highest quarters of our land. The island was discovered by Columbus on October 27, 1492. Four hundred and ten years later it became a republic. On May 20, 1902, one Tomas Estrada Palma assumed the presidency of the fledgling nation. He was hand-picked by Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood, serving the administration of President McKinley. Cuba's race and class divisions reflected four centuries of Spanish colonial rule and an economic dependence on slavery, up until the 1870s. In the 19th century, disparate elements of Cuban society -- planters, peasants, and slaves -- coalesced ...
- Platt Amendment
- Reference information from: World Encyclopedia January 1, 2005 700+ words
Platt Amendment (1901) US legislation effectively making Cuba a US protectorate after the Spanish-American War . It...and provided the legal basis for the US occupation of Cuba (1906–09). It was repealed in 1934, although...
- GONZALEZ: U.S. POLICY ON CUBA MUST CHANGE.(SATURDAY EXTRA)
- Newspaper article from: The Capital Times (Madison, WI) January 4, 2003 700+ words
...Cuban leaders to annex the Platt Amendment to their constitution. "The Platt Amendment granted the U.S. the...investments, essentially turning Cuba into an economic colony...Cuban revolution, the Platt Amendment was the Miracle Grow that...
- Like It Or Not - Castro Will Leave Cuba In Better Shape
- Newspaper article from: Oakland Post Bill Hughes February 16, 1994 700+ words
...statehood nor did it give Cuba complete independence...United States made Cuba into a "Protectorate...passed the intolerable Platt Amendment which gave the U...doing away with the Platt Amendment and for a while Cuba seemed to be making...
- Education and Cuba Libre, 1898-1958.
- Magazine article from: History Today Johnston, Laurie August 1, 1995 700+ words
...Ohio provided the model for Cuba's school law. US curriculum...training and US educators came to Cuba to design and teach in the...its continued influence over Cuba by insisting, as the price...incorporation of the notorious Platt Amendment into the new Cuban Constitution...
- Former envoy stresses ties with Cuba.(COMMENTARY)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times May 20, 2005 700+ words
...the Cuban-American community. Cuba has rejected administration talk...domestic political reforms as "another Platt Amendment." Mrs. Huddleston agreed "It...allowed direct U.S. intervention in Cuba's internal affairs. "There is...
- SEVEN ENDURING MYTHS ABOUT CUBA.(Editorial)(Letter to the Editor)(Editorial)
- Newspaper article from: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY) May 21, 2002 700+ words
...reasons for visiting Cuba now. It may have been...1902, in spite of the Platt Amendment, the American flag...the Morro Castle - and Cuba finally became a free...way. Myth No. 3: Cuba, before Castro, was...hard to repeal) the Platt Amendment, imposed by the United...
- Cuba's isolation.
- Magazine article from: Canadian Dimension Lanfranco, Sam October 1, 1991 700+ words
...the US wrested control over Cuba from Spain in the so-called...Cuban War of Independence. Cuba's fate for the first half...Reciprocal Treaty between Cuba and the United States in which the Platt Amendment, an attachment to the Cuban...
- CUBA A LONGTIME OBSESSION FOR U.S.(PERSPECTIVE)
- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) March 10, 1996 700+ words
...in 1895-98. This time, Cuba was a far hotter issue in U...war'' of 1898. Spain lost Cuba -- along with Puerto Rico and...then imposed, through the Platt Amendment, its right to control Cuba's foreign relations and to...
