Will Cuba Pay the Price for Trump’s Thwarted Hubris?

The American relationship with Cuba over the past century and a bit could charitably be described as complicated. The island was ‘liberated’ from Spanish control following the Spanish-American War of 1898 though in reality the United States heavily circumscribed Cuban independence under the terms of the Platt Amendments (which allowed the US to intervene in Cuba if it so chose), turning the island into a de facto vassal. All of this was in keeping with the Monroe Doctrine and the ... Read...