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Article: Cuba's isolation.
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- Canadian Dimension
- Article date:
- October 1, 1991
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SAM LANFRANCO contemplates Cuba's future in the context of the Soviet collapse and relentless US hostility.
The United States started this century with a firm grip on Cuba. In 1823 US President James Monroe declared the doctrine that the US would set the political agenda for the hemisphere. In 1985 the US wrested control over Cuba from Spain in the so-called Spanish-American-Cuban War of Independence. Cuba's fate for the first half of the century was sealed with the 1902 Reciprocal Treaty between Cuba and the United States in which the Platt Amendment, an attachment to the Cuban Constitution, gave the US the unilateral right to intervene in Cuban affairs.