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Cuba, America’s closest neighbor, says enough is enough.
Taking a Gander
For more than a century, American history textbooks have packaged the Spanish-American War as a noble act of chivalry—Uncle Sam rescuing a suffering neighbor from the cruel Spanish Empire. It is a comforting myth, but a total lie. The United States did not liberate Cuba; we hijacked its revolution.
Think of it as a neighbor offering to help clean your house, only to change the locks, sleep in your master bedroom and charge you rent for the closet.
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