IN 1960 Fidel Castro takes over Cuba. Why doesnt America over throw Castro with the Platt Amendment?
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Platt amendment was repealed. And I quote wikipedia:\n\nExcept for U.S. rights to Guantánamo Bay, the Platt Amendment provisions, which Cubans considered an imperialist infringement of their sovereignty, were repealed in 1934, when a new treaty with the U.S. was negotiated as a part of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Good Neighbor policy" toward Latin America.
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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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It had nothing to do with the United States. This particular amendment had to do with cocoa imports in Bangladesh and how they affected the trade embargoes along the Ivory Coast.\n\nRead your textbook.
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In 1903, the new Republic of Cuba leased to the United States the Naval Reservation on which the Naval Station was to be located. The lease was negotiated to implement an act of Congress of the United States approved 2 March 1901, and an appendix to the Constitution of the Republic of Cuba promulgated 20 May 1902. Each of these contained an identical article, to wit:\n\n"VII. That to enable the United States to maintain the independence of Cuba, and to protect the people thereof, as well as its own defense, the government of Cuba will sell or lease to the United States lands necessary for coaling and Naval stations at certain specified points to be agreed upon by the President of the United States".\n\nThe terms of the lease arrived at are contained in three documents -two agreements and a treaty. The contents of these documents are not well known. At times they have been misunderstood locally and also in Havana and Washington. It is small wonder that such has been the case. It was reported officially in 1936 that the Naval Station did not even possess a copy of the original lease agreement. This is only one example of a number that could be cited. It therefore appears desirable to devote a chapter to the terms of the lease, and to their precise meaning with regard to the obligations of Cuba and the United States, together with a description of the area of land and water acquired in the transaction.\n\nFirst Lease\n\nThe first lease agreement, copy appended for reference, was signed by President Estrada Palma on 16 February 1903, and by President Theodore Roosevelt on 23 February 1903. By this instrument Cuba leased to the United States certain areas of land and water in Guantanamo and Bahia Honda for the purpose of "coaling and naval stations". (Bahia Honda was abandoned after nine years of occupation). Concerning Guantanamo, the agreement describes the leased "areas of land and water" as follows:\n\n"In Guantanamo (see Hydrographic Office Chart 1857), from a point on the South Coast, 4.37 miles to the eastward of Windward Point Light House, a line running north (true) a distance of 4.25 nautical miles; from the northern extremity of this line, a line running west (true), a distance of 5.87 nautical miles; from the western extremity of this last line, a line running south-west (true), 3.31 nautical miles; from the southwestern extremity of this last line, a line running south (true) to the seacoast".\n\nThe land area above described comprises 19,621 acres, 11,058 on the windward side, and 8,563 on the leeward. The water areas, consisting principally of Guantanamo Bay from the mouth of the harbor (theoretical line joining Leeward and Windward Points) to the northern boundary line, comprise 9,196 acres. The total naval reservation contains 28,817 acres or about 45 square miles of land and water. (The foregoing figures are based on the original survey).\n\nFurthermore, the agreement granted the United States the right to use and occupy the waters adjacent to the above described areas of land and water. "Adjacent waters" are interpreted to mean the water leading up to the harbor entrance and the water along the seacoast out to the three mile limit. The United States has the right to improve and deepen the entrances to the leased areas of land and water, and to improve and deepen the anchorages therein, and generally to do any and all things to fit the premises as a coaling and naval station, and for no other purpose.\n\nOver the leased areas of land and water, comprising the Naval reservation, Cuba consented that during the period of occupation, the United States would exercise "complete jurisdiction and control over and within said areas," including the right to acquire for the public purposes of the United States any land or property therein by purchase or by right of eminent domain with full compensation to the owners thereof. On the other hand, the United States reco
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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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There isn't, nor ever has been, a Communist country - only feeble attempts by Communist politicians and governments.  But while Capitalism still has a foothold, Communism could never occur.\n\nThe US trade embargo on Cuba exists because the US government under various Presidents don't like Cuba's regime under Fidel Castro and are waiting for him to die.\n\nChina no longer suffers any US embargo because they have embraced Capitalism with fervour and, if you compare whats going on in Gauntanamo Bay (which is on Cuban soil without permission from the Cuban government) with Chinas record on Human Rights, the US has a close ally in terms of treating people badly, unfairly and cruelly.\n\nYou have asked a good question which invokes a lot of history, politics, law and economics - well done.
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I hope the answers given by the Americans on here , aren't representative of the views of all Americans. There's got to be SOME Americans who are good guys. \nAs previously mentioned by others, only more eloquently, America invaded and 'stole' this bay about 100 hundred years ago, as it was strategically sited for access to the whole of the Caribbean. (It has carried out this strategy many times since, all over the world). To make it look legal, the US sends Cuba a 'rental cheque' every year, which Cuba has never cashed.\nEffectively, the US are squatters in Cuba, they have no linternationally recognised legal right to be there.
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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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The history of Cuba is essentially the history of the tragedy of American foreign policy since WW2.\nHistory already has absolved Castro in most parts of the world except right factions and miami dissidents in the US. His famous speech,  "History will absolve me" has become true...at a time during the Batista regime when Cuba mainly served as a gambling island and was owned by Americans, Castro led a people's revolution stating that history would absolve him. Ever since 1959, in Cuba, he has been absolved.  The entire history of Cuban politics in the past 50 years has been charaterized by anti-Americansim - his rule a defense mechanism against the greatest Empire in history. In that time, he has taken Cuba from a corrupt protectorate of the USA, from a client state of the USSR...to now, a completely independent country.  He is the leader of one of the smallest countries in the world, but is known throughout the world. He has taken Cuba from the tyranny and subjugation of the Batista regime, and brought on a people's revolution that has seen Cuba produce Nobel Prize winners, Olympic Athletes, Baseball players, Jazz musicians, doctors...taken the education and healthcare sytems from being in shambles to developing and sustaining a standard that not only erases illiteracy, but is capable of exporting to other developing countries...both in medicine and education.  \nFidel Castro has taken the Cuban people from being occupied slaves of the US and turned them into someone. An incredible achievement that not many other leaders in history can claim.\nNelson Mandela is one of Fidel Castro's closest friends...without Cuban aid and support during the 1980s apartheid...South Africa, Namibia and a host of other south african ".would not have gained independence wen they did.  But, as Harry Belafonte says, "If you don't understand this history, then you will never understand the importance of the Cuban revolution." Castro came into power and was greeted as a liberator of the Cuban people - he still is. The worst crime that he commited was giving the land and resources back to the Cuban people, instead of American companies. For that, the USA tried to invade during the Bay of Pigs; after that the world narrowly escaped a nuclear crisis as Cuba aimed to defend itself with Soviet aid against another attack.  Throughout, the Trade Embargo has remained...paradoxically granting themselves of American independence, but also, being isolated from the world's largest economy. I think the better question is: Will the US ever be absolved for what it has done to Cuba and its people since its revolution, which is completely supported by its own people. If only the USA would respect the sovereign rights of other countries. Will the US ever be forgiven for Operation Peter Pan, in which the CIA and the Catholic church kidnapped over 20,000 Cuban children from their parents and flew them to the US. Will the US ever be forgiven for being hypocrites for not trading with Cuba, but with China on an unprecendented level.\nVive le Castro! Vive le revolucion!
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Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (born 13 August 1926) is the current President of Cuba. He held the title of Prime Minister from 1959 [1], after commanding the revolution that overthrew Fulgencio Batista, until 1976 when he became president of the both the Council of State and the Council of Ministers. Castro became first secretary of the Cuban Communist Party in 1965, and led the transformation of Cuba into a one-party socialist republic.
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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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Yes. Cuba at the time posed a significant threat to the United States, since it was closely allied with the USSR diplomatically, and was only about 60 miles from Miami, one of the US' largest cities. A war fought there could have meant the end of the United States.\n\nAlso, the Madison Doctrine technically makes US intervention in Latin American politics allowed, although it is a distasteful piece of legislation. Still, it is essential to American national security.\n\nIt was poorly executed because Castro knew what was happening, and the invasion was poorly planned. The CIA trained exiles were also expecting massive amounts of internal help from Cubans, but they were disappointed. Almost no one showed up at the party.
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A country can't maintain what they don't have.  Presige has been gone in the world since the Clinton administration when the world was laughing at our former president's sexual behavior.\n\nWhat has happened since has just brought it further downhill.\n\nAmerica would regain prestige if we won the war, but how do you win this kind of war?  I'm not holding my breath.\n\nBest Wishes,\n\nSue
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well cuba is a communist country where there's certain rules that most of the people disagree that's the reason cubans seem america like an alternative to live ....they can get whatever they want and have freedom of speech ....some other people that is not cuban might have those rights in their countries as well but they have other problems such as economical problems or looking for a job.
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if u think America is not a Communist country look at the case of the little boy from Cuba the American government would not go through its own court system to resolve the issue instead guns blazing a all in all assault was taken to remove the boy from his home in America so indeed the American government (i use the term loosely )is trying to take over the world
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This is something the USA narrowly avoided shortly after the Revolutionary War.  Upset at the lack of promised pay, benifits, and worried that all they had fought for would be wasted by the Continental Congress, a group of officers petitioned General Washington to stage a military coup.\n\nTrue to his nature as one of the Founding Fathers of America, Washington countered them, calmed their fears, and negotiated patience to allow Congress to fix its mistakes and implement the ideals of the revolution.  Hence, General George Washington set the standard for how the US military operates.  This standard is reenforced at officer training schools and, along with the culture and character of the US Military, is why we have not had a coup in the USA.\n\nAs for other countries....  Many have had coups, Juntas, military rule, etc.  Japan in WWII was ruled mainly by its Army.  In fact, the Imperial Japanese Army tried to overthrow Emperor Hirohito to keep him from surrendering to the USA.  They obviously failed.\n\nOther countries have had similar problems.  Many "failed states" are the result of military take overs.  Without the cultural aspects found in many Western militaries (Civilian rule, personal freedom, duty to the people of a nation), these military governments fail.  Peru is another example.  Coups, followed by elections, followed by coups.  \n\nIn all, the US Military wants no part of running the nation.  It's not our place, or our expertise.  It also goes against everything we swear to, fight for, and give our lives to.  Other militaries do take over, and very few have been successfull.\n\nBTW, cuba has higher standards?  In what plane of reality is that true?  Certainly not this one.  Cuba went from one of the strongest economies in the Western Hemispher to nothing thanks to Castro and his litle executioner Che Guevera, who ran the economy into the ground as minister of finance.
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Another chance to show what the Bush's ideal for Democracy should be.  We screw Cuba because it is in our back yard, but since Vietnam is becoming a growing textile industry we should send more of our american jobs and dollars to the communist countries.