Economic Relationship Between Cuba And The United States

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Since the beginning of the relationship between Cuba and the United States, starting with the Spanish-American War, the former has always been repressed by the latter. The initial economic relationship established between these two countries have set the terms to how they interact with each other until this very day. It is important in understanding this in thorough before looking at the inter dynamics of the 1933 Revolution.
Cuba’s independence from Spain came when the United States invaded the Spanish colonies in the Caribbean and the Philippines. For over thirty years, Cubans had been organizing to fight for their independence: The Ten Year War (1868-178), La Guerra Chiquita (1879-1880), and the later Cuban War of Independence (1895-1898).

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