Cuba and the U.S. Empire

A Chronological History

Jane Franklin

• Publisher: Monthly Review Press
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN:
  9781583676059
• eBook ISBN:
  9781583676073
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Latin American & Caribbean History
• Index: History

The 1959 Cuban Revolution remains one of the signal events of modern political history. A tiny island, once a de facto colony of the United States, declared its independence, not just from the imperial behemoth ninety miles to the north, but also from global capitalism itself. Cuba’s many achievements – in education, health care, medical technology, direct local democracy, actions of international solidarity with the oppressed – are globally unmatched and unprecedented. And the United States, in light of Cuba’s achievements, has waged a relentless campaign of terrorist attacks on the island and its leaders, while placing Cuba on its “State Sponsors of Terrorism” list.

In this updated edition of her classic, Cuba and the United States: A Chronological History, Jane Franklin depicts the two countries’ relationship from the time both were colonies to the present. We see the early connections between Cuba and the United States through slavery; through the sugar trade; then Cuba’s multiple wars for national liberation; the annexation of Cuba by the United States; the infamous Platt Amendment that entitled the United States to intervene directly in Cuban affairs; the gangster capitalism promoted by Cuban dictator Fulgencio Battista; and the guerilla war that brought the revolutionaries to power.

A new chapter updating the fraught Cuban-U.S. nexus brings us well into the 21st century, with a look at the current status of Assata Shakur, the Cuban Five, and the post-9/11 years leading to the expansion of diplomatic relations. Offering a range of primary and secondary sources, the book is an outstanding scholarly work. Cuba and the United States brings new meaning to Simón Bolívar’s warning in 1829, that the United States “appears destined by Providence to plague America with miseries in the name of Freedom.”

INDEX

The index that appeared in the print version of this title was intentionally removed from the eBook. Please use the search function on your eReading device for terms of interest. For your reference, the terms that appear in the print index are listed below

Aaron, David

ABC broadcasts. See Pan American Games

ABC Charters

Abierno, Bienvenido

Abolition. See Slavery

Abourezk, James

Abrams, Elliott

Abrams, Floyd

Abu Ghraib prison

Abyssinian Baptist Church

Acevedo, María Isabel

Act of Bogotá

Adams, J.M.G.

Adams, John Quincy

Afghanistan

AFL-CIO

Africa. See specific countries

Africa, slaves from. See Slavery

African-Americans

African Methodist Church

African National Congress. See ANC

Africans, Cubans descended from

Agee, Philip

Agency for International Development. See USAID

Aggressions. See Attacks

Agramonte, Ignacio

Agrarian policy. See Nationalization

Agrupación Independiente de Color

Aguilar Reyes, Roberto

Air Force Academy

Airlift. See Camarioca

Alarcón de Quesada, Ricardo

Albania

Alexander, Bill

Alfonsín, Raúl

Alfonso, Sandra M.

Algeria

Allen, Richard

Allende Gossens, Salvador

Alliance for Progress

Alliance of Cuban Workers (US)

Almacén el Español

Almeida Bosque, Juan

Alonso, Alicia

Alpha 66

Al Qaeda

Alvarado, Humberto

Alvarez, Santiago

Alvarez Cambras, Rodrigo

Alvarez Pedroso, Pedro De la Caridad

American Airways Charter Inc.

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)

American Enterprise Institute

American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME)

American Foreign Power Company

American Public Health Association (APHA)

American Society of Newspaper Publishers

American Society of Travel Agents

Americas Watch

AM/LASH

ANC. See Mandela; Tambo

Anderson, Jack

Andersson, Sven

Andorra

Andropov, Yuri

Angola. See Africa; Cuito Cuanavale; Dos Santos; MPLA; Negotiations; UNITA

Annexation. See US, and annexation

Antigua and Barbuda

Antonio Maceo Brigade

Apartheid. See ANC; South Africa

Arafat, Yasser

Aragón

Arana Osorio, Carlos

Arawak. See Taíno Arawak

Arbenz Guzmán, Jacobo

Arbesú Fraga, José Antonio

Arboleya, Carlos

Arce, Bayardo

Arcos, Gustavo

Arcos Bergnés, Sebastián

Argentina. See Malvinas

Arguedas, Antonio

Arias, Oscar

Arias plan. See Esquipulas II

Arias Rodham, María Victoria

Aristide, Jean-Bertrand

Arkansas. See Fort Chaffee

Armacost, Michael

Armas, Manuel de

Armenia

Arms race

Arocena...

Table of contents

• Cover
• About the Author
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Foreword
• Author’s Note on Method and Sources
• Background to Revolution 1492–2015
• The Year 1959
• The Year 1960
• The Year 1961
• The Year 1962
• The Year 1963
• The Year 1964
• The Year 1965
• The Year 1966
• The Year 1967
• The Year 1968
• The Year 1969
• The Year 1970
• The Year 1971
• The Year 1972
• The Year 1973
• The Year 1974
• The Year 1975
• The Year 1976
• The Year 1977
• The Year 1978
• The Year 1979
• The Year 1980
• The Year 1981
• The Year 1982
• The Year 1983
• The Year 1984
• The Year 1985
• The Year 1986
• The Year 1987
• The Year 1988
• The Year 1989
• The Year 1990
• The Year 1991
• The Year 1992
• The Year 1993
• The Year 1994
• The Year 1995
• Cuba and the United States in the 21st Century
• Glossary
• Index