Influence Of The United States On The Caribbean

The United States influence in the Caribbean has effected the development of the Caribbean, especially that of the Caribbean country, Cuba. The Platt Amendment was a direct way for the United States to take control of Cuba’s political and military system. It also exposed the United States’ intentions of using Cuban resources, such as land ownership, as a source for political and economic opportunity. The United States however, has also indirectly controlled the Caribbean country using Cuban native elitists as politicians through the Cuban government, while working for the United States. In the years of 1880-1930, Cuba demands the right to reform and revolutionize its country as it gains independence from the United States. Although the Platt Amendment in the 1920’s tries to sanction the country, through the University of Havana and the effects of the World War 1, Cuba’s economy flourishes along with its’ people’s movements. The United States influences’ have only left Cuba …show more content…
Although the Cuban government may not have seemed capable of self- government, the constant influence of the United States made the Cuban people reform and reinvent their homeland. Such as relations with the University of Havana and reformists who took action in undermining the need for intellectual conversations; the Cuban government enforced the importance of education. It implemented systems to allow its citizens to stay in school until they were in ninth grade, they then had the opportunity to attend vocational school or further their education through high school and college (The United States, Cuba, and the Platt Amendment, 1901). Leaders emphasized the rigor of government education and required each student to have some education or expertise in government rule, which resulted in the Cuban country with a literacy rate as high as 99%. A rate that would be impossible to maintain in a country of “savage