
Cuba Today: An Update on Our Friends and Neighbors
Mon, Nov 22
|Zoom
Kurt Mehta, a lawyer who has visited Cuba and studied the island extensively and Sandy Baird from the Cuban American Friendship Society and a person who fell in love with Cuba decades ago will lead this community discussion on Zoom


Time & Location
Nov 22, 2021, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Zoom
About The Event
Cuba has always been under watchful eye of the United States. In the earliest days of Spanish and
English colonialism, the southern part of the States, which would become the Confederacy desired Cuba
to increase the power of the slaveocracy; when the American Revolution succeeded in independence
from the 13 British colonies, the new republic began an imperial climb to control all of Latin America and
the Caribbean. After the Cuban War of Independence and the Spanish American War was won by the
United States, Cuba was restricted in its independence by the Platt Amendment and by the occupation of