HIST 3659 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Cuban Revolution, United Fruit Company, Fulgencio Batista
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Us began to promote that the cubans were not helping them free themselves. Cuban rebel army was not invited to the conference in paris and the us negotiated the freedom for cuba. Most of the most prominent figures of the revolution were dead. Many of those surviving became middle men between cuba and the us. Marti"s vision was to transition cuba"s economy away from sugar. But it was made clear that the party in power wasn"t going to leave. The other party would stage a rebellion triggering the. Only other aspect to gain wealth other than sugar economy was politics. A idea of a caste war was spread to the people. The liberals put down all the members of the pic. Promised that the us would no longer intervene in latin. The us began instead to arm home grown national guard units. 30 sugar mills were taken by the workers who took over production for them selves.
