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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2024 4:25:24 GMT
How would this have happened? What would the consequences have been?
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Post by greenchristian on Oct 28, 2024 9:04:23 GMT
How would this have happened? What would the consequences have been? There are a couple of possible ways for this to have happened. The Ostend Manifesto in 1854 proposed the US purchasing Cuba from Spain to expand the slave states. And the US took Cuba during the Spanish-American War in 1898. They ceded control to the locals in 1902, but it would have been possible for this to have resulted in it becoming a Hawaii or Puerto Rico rather than an independent state.
The consequences depend on precisely how it happens. But obviously anything following the Cuban Revolution would have been completely different.
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Post by r34t on Oct 28, 2024 9:12:58 GMT
Interesting Netflix documentary on at the moment
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Post by swanarcadian on Oct 28, 2024 10:59:00 GMT
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Post by carlton43 on Oct 28, 2024 11:12:52 GMT
I had never given any thought to this scenario at all, yet it does seem odd that there was no move towards statehood because of the sugar, the tobacco and the second homes/tourism potential. This must be a case where Cuba as a State of the Union is virtually entirely an upside for everyone and would have dramatically improved the lot of most Cubans over the past 150-years. Could it still happen?
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Post by slon on Oct 29, 2024 9:35:37 GMT
It more or less happened under Batista
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