Cuba

📖 History of US Involvement in Cuba

From the Spanish-American War (1898) through the Bay of Pigs (1961) to the present embargo, the U.S. has treated Cuba as its Caribbean property. The Platt Amendment made Cuba a de facto protectorate. The CIA's failed invasion cemented Castro's power for 50 years. The trade embargo — the longest in modern history — has impoverished ordinary Cubans without achieving regime change. The lesson: confrontation strengthens the regimes it aims to weaken.