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Cuba Today: An Update on Our Friends and Neighbors

Mon, Nov 22

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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

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Cuba Today: An Update on Our Friends and Neighbors
Cuba Today: An Update on Our Friends and Neighbors

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

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