Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unwillingly into the arena of world power in the 1890s. Given the country's economic needs, the reorganization of the national economy into a system of finance capitalism, and the extent of social chaos deepened by the calamitous depression of 1893, the form and extent of U.S. intervention in Cuba and in the Far East in the late 1890s are understandable...
...economic policy hastened Cuba's drive for independence. As European beet sugar production drove the price of Cuban sugar down, Americans stepped in where plantation owners were selling out cheaply. An increase in the U.S. sugar tariff in 1895 accelerated the rate of plantation workers' layoffs, heating up the Cubans' resentment of Spain to the point where revolution was inevitable...
...economic groups with no interests in Cuba naturally opposed this country's intervention in 1898. But U.S. participation served not only to mollify a public frightened by the growing pains of capitalism--labor violence, the concentration of ownership, urbanization, the dissolution of "rural values," and the swelling number of non-English speaking immigrants--it also bolstered moderate and conservative elements among the revolutionaries, preventing Cuba from falling into the hands of militant nationalists. Limited intervention became a legitimate foreign policy instrument...
Volunteers from places as diverse as Cuba and Thailand are streaming into enlistment posts just behind the Socialist American lines. Jose Garcia, who once was a member of the Tupamaros, the Uruguayan urban guerrilla organization, explained that the dictatorship in his country was withering away...
...protesters, who entered the IAPA meeting chanting Chilean liberation slogans, encountered no resistance form hotel guards of IAPA members. One Cuban member, however, shouted "Go to Cuba" in Spanish to NICH members...