LATAM 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Antonio Maceo Grajales, Cuba Libre, Sex Tourism
7 Mar 2017
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Cadillac, appliances, baseball, name brand consumer, tv: came later than rest of latin america (spanish colony until between. 1898 and 1902: ten years war (1868-1878, destructive war (independence not achieved, cuba libra movement. Elites with no interest in forming an egalitarian society: blacks banned from high offices, 95% of all afro cuban men fought, represented majority of independence fighters, were called mambises . Spanish behind the race war: image: businessmen in the united states worried, us expansionists know cuba vulnerable, william randolph hearst and joseph pulitzer (newspaper men, uss maine explosion. Call for us intervention: us easily liberates (cuba, puerto rico, philippines, guam, the us in cuba, us military rule (1898-1902) again (1906-1909) Cubans not happy (military corruption and most revolutionaries ignored: us said cuba was not mature enough to govern itself (proof: around election time cubans voted for revolutionary leaders, economy in shambles.
