🇨🇺 Main Topic: Why Cuba Hates U.S. Foreign Policy
🧩 Core Argument
Cuba’s hostility toward the U.S. stems from:
- A long history of American imperialism, economic sabotage, and violence.
- Ongoing sanctions and regime-change efforts that continue to impoverish the Cuban population.
- U.S. hypocrisy: while claiming to support “democracy,” it has tried for decades to overthrow Cuba’s actual sovereignty and popular government.
📜 Part 1: Historical U.S. Control Over Cuba
🏴☠️ Post-Spanish-American War (1898)
- Cuba becomes a U.S. protectorate under a U.S.-imposed constitution.
- U.S. gains intervention rights, financial control, and leases Guantánamo Bay—still occupied today.
- Cubans excluded from sovereignty decisions.
⚖️ Early 20th Century Interventions
- Voting restricted to wealthy, male, non-Black Cubans.
- U.S. intervenes militarily in response to unrest (e.g., 1906 occupation, Magoon as U.S. “governor”).
- Political corruption and social instability worsened by American interference.
🎲 Part 2: Pre-Revolution Cuba – Mafia, Military, Misery
🎰 1920s–1950s: Crime, Corruption, Colonialism
- American-backed tourism economy built on gambling, brothels, and mafia control.