Why havent the Americans Invaded Cuba?
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Bush might have fantasies about swooping into Cuba and accomplishing what no other US president in 50 years has been able to accomplish, but right now he has neither the political support nor the financial resources to do it. That doesn't mean he won't do it. He isn't always rational and neither is he always predictable. But it seems unlikely.\n\nThe Report to the President of the Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba is a document the Bush administration wrote to justify being crueler to the citizens of Cuba and meddling more than it already does in Cuban political and social life. It is a document the Bush administration wrote to make it more difficult for Americans to have contact with Cubans and to learn the truth about Cuba. Why Bush wants to do that and why he (like so many of his predecessors) has this relentless obsession with Cuba and its leaders is more a matter for a psychiatrist than a political analyst. It makes no human, political or ethical sense. If Bush has it his way it might happen !!!
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Cuba is a communist nation. the people get treated right some Cubans want to overthrow the president Fidel Castro because he has been in power for over 43years. They cant have free elections and they are not allowed to talk bad about their president.
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Oil can be both a blessing & a curse! Especially when the USA invades your country to steal it. What could the Army steal from Cuba? A few cigars.\n\nAmerica tried to invade Cuba in the 60s as described below but it was a failure.
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More than anything else, I think it started out of embarassment. When Fidel Castro came out of nowhere to lead his people against a very corrupt regieme led by Bautista, it was like he was a Latino John Kennedy. We welcomed him here in the US. The problem was, of course, that much of the corruption was tied up with the American Mafia and gambling cartels. They did not take very well to being kicked out of Cuba. \n\nThen there was Fidel's Socialist leanings. He was a man of the people, right? He and Che Gueverra saw themselves as liberators. The revolution would not be confined to just Cuba but might well be exported to all the corrupt North American dominated regimes. The US could not stomach that. Trade started getting "difficult."\n\nFidel appealed to a nation very interested in establishing a Western Hemisphere base of influence, the Soviet Union. This was the era of a very hot "Cold War" with Nikita Khruchov taking off his shoe and banging it on the desk in the UN threatening the US with "We will bury you!" The Soviet Union even went so far as to send guided missiles to Cuba. John Kennedy was President at the time. It seemed as though the US and the Soviet Union were going to nuclear war over Cuba. The Soviets withdrew their missiles.\n\nFidel stayed on. The US took in Cubano refugees. Some of them launched attempts to topple Fidel's government. The CIA may have even tried to assassinate him.  There were rumors that Cuba was behind the JFK assassination plot.\n\nSo, Cuba has remained only 80 miles off the Florida shores. And the US still has a base there where the prisoners from the latest war are kept. Strange, huh? Yet, we still do not trade with them.
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Whatever the reason, it's false The usa has  distorted view of socialism, they are staunch supporters of capitalism They loathe communism to the point of paranoia.But they're not afraid of cuba or anyone else
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The US had not entered the war with the intention of gaining a colonial empire. However, at the end of the war the colonial ruler Spain was militarily crushed and the three remaining colonies (Cuba, Puerto Rico and Philippines) were in rebellion. The US felt if they did not take posession that they would be seized by European powers (a German flotilla did show up off of Manila Bay).
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The base there was established in 1898 when the US took control of Cuba from Spain. When Cuba gained independence, they gave a perpetual lease, where both parties have to agree for it to be terminated, in 1903.
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The Honorable Philip W. Bonsal was ambassador to Cuba from the U.S. from Jan. 1959 until Oct. 1960, when he was recalled by Pres. Dwight Eisenhower.  Diplomatic relations with Cuba were subsequently broken by Pres. Eisenhower on Jan 3, 1961. We've had no diplomatic relations and no ambassador to Cuba since that date.\n\nThe Cuban Missile crisis didn't arise until a year later.\n\nThe U.S.UN Ambassador was Adlai Stevenson
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The Mexican, Cuban, and other foreign people need a place to go where they will be accepted. If this place happens to be America then so be it. Its inhumane to shoot people trying to cross the boarder or to send them back to Cuba after traveling across a fairly substantial strentch of water. We're the great American melting pot and it would be great if that could continue  peacefuly.
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Like 3 millions and counting.\nRight now they don't need Visas. They need some money from the Miami exile and take a "yola" to the Mona Island at the west of Puerto Rico. Is very inhuman and unjust that the Dominicans and Haitians are treated like criminals when they enter the USA territory by Puerto Rico, but the Cubans are treated like war heroes. Believe me in a few weeks or months they are living in Florida with a full American citizenship.
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I wouldnt cuba is a sh%Thole, and why would want to give Fidel factories, instructure in place. Become closer to France to curropt them more we need to break thier arrogance together. Remember, France is xenophonic but the its always fun to hear British jokes bash France hahahaha..
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What in the world for? Cuba has nothing US wants, needs-no oil,no minerals, gems, no natural resources-would just be a drain on US economy.
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I think Castro has done a beautiful job of keeping America out of Cuba. The people there actually have health care, and are highly educated. I have read it was better than 90% of the people, and that is better than the United States. When Castro dies, I am sure America will do a take over most likely. We will just have to see, wont we?
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The trade embargo with Cuba is not successful because there are plenty of other countries that wish to trade with them. It was only the United States that had a problem with Cuba's regime change and subsequent romance with Communism. The Russians have had a healthy trade with Cuba since the early 1960s.\n\nBasically, trade embargos can only work if they are universally adhered to. This one is not. In fact, some countries around the world believe that the trade embargo with Cuba is unjust (possibly illegal) and only serves to hurt the common people of the country.
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The real reason is that the government officials want to get elected again, and the minority of U.S. citizins that fled from Cuba will vote for them if they persecute Cuba.\n\nIt is also because people think communism is evil, while I think that it can be good.\n\nPEACE IS COMMING SOON!
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They don't hate Cubans, just Castro. He took over and seized property from all of the US businesses and aided the Russians during the Cold War, letting them put nuclear missiles on Cuba, which wasn't exactly a very friendly gesture.
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The answers already given try to answer why the US wants a base in Cuba, but it doesn't explain why we have one.  The US would probably also love to have bases in North Korea, but that isn't happening any time soon, while we do have one in Cuba.  Why?\n\nBecause we used to have a different relationship with the country. It all started during the Spanish-American war (in 1898), when the US landed in Cuba, which was then a Spanish colony.  The whole thing started when Cubans started rebelling against Spanish rule, and the Spanish responded by setting up prison camps, officially to separate rebels from everyone else, but which really meant setting up a violent police state and rounding up all the rural Cubans they could and treating them very badly so that many hundreds of thousands died of disease and starvation.  The Spanish also burned homes, farms and equipment to make it hard to offer the rebels any material support.\n\nAt the same time, two New York newspapers were engaged in fierce competition for readers, and one of them (William Randolph Heart, the inventor of yellow journalism, which is sensational and melodramatic writing) started describing the horrors of Cuba in very graphic and melodramatic terms.  The result was that people bought his newspapers, and they started pushing the US to intervene and help the Cuban rebels.  Around the same time, the US ship the USS Maine was docked in the Havana harbor when it blew up.  At the time, Americans believed that it was done on purpose by the Spanish to prevent the Maine from offering any help or even "sending a message" on behalf of the Cuban rebels.  The Spanish maintained that it was a boiler accident that blew up the Maine, and analysis of the wreckage has since shown they were right, but the US public was already so angry at the Spanish for their treatment of the Cubans that they didn't believe them.  \n\nThis was the final straw for the US, plus a justification for intervening on behalf of the Cuban rebels.  They invaded Cuba (and several other Spanish colonies), drove out the Spanish and the Cuban rebels took control of their government. \nThe US had already set up a base in Guantanamo Bay during this war, and now that the Cuban leadership was so beholden to the US, the US asked for a favor back.  In February 1903 the US and Cuba's first president signed a lease for Guantanamo bay allowing the US to use it in perpetuity.  \n\nThis was to the Cubans' advantage because they didn't want the Spanish coming back and they did want good relations with the US and it was to the US's advantage because they got a base in the Caribbean.  Officially, Guantanamo Bay belongs to Cuba, but the US can rent it as long as it wants.  it even now pays rent to the Cuban government for the area.\n\nSince that time there was a revolution in Cuba, the Communist revolution, which brought Fidel Castro into power.  The US does not like Fidel Castro and he does not like the US, but the US is too powerful to kick out of Guantanamo using military means, and the US insists on staying, so both sides pretend that the Platt Agreement (the agreement that included the lease of Guantanamo Bay) is fine by them.  \n\nThe US is now using Guantanamo Bay to hold prisoners because it is still technically Cuba, not the US, and it argues that  US laws and US jurisdiction do not apply there.  This is partly true, they don't, as it is Cuba, but it is also the US military, which means that the laws that apply to the US military wherever they are DO apply there.  This is the basis of the arguments currently going through the US courts on behalf of some of the prisoners demanding fairer trials and hearings.