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A brief history of America and Cuba

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America is opening up relations with Cuba, and it's a big deal, ending decades of hostility,

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and beginning a new era between the two countries.

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But to understand just how big of a deal , where that hostility really came from, and why it

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took so long to end, you've go to go back — way back, not to the 1950s as many Americans

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think, but to the 1850s.

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The story starts with America divided between pro-slavery and anti-slavery politics.

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And one of their many fights is over the Spanish colony of Cuba.

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Pro-slavery lawmakers want to buy Cuba from Spain, or take it by force, to turn into a

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new slave state.

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Anti-slavery politicians oppose this, calling it imperialism.

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In 1898, after slavery ends, Americans have a different version of this argument again,

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when Cubans rise up against Spain.

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The US joins them, starting the Spanish-American war.

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But Americans divide: should the US seize Cuba from Spain for itself, or liberate it?

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This is part of a much bigger debate at the time over whether the US should explicitly

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become a European-style imperial power.

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So this is an argument about Cuba, but it's also an argument about America and what kind

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