Relationship between Cuba and United States

Relationship between Cuba and United States

Relationship between Cuba and United States

Introduction

For the last two hundred years, race and relations in Cuba has remained a charged and complex issue. This was true under Spanish rule until 1898, United State's influence after helping to liberate Cuba from the Spanish and even since its socialist revolution of 1959. Under the Spanish, Cuba's plantation economy experienced a dramatic rise because of the slave revolt that ended in the Haitian Revolution in 1802. When Haiti's sugar trade came to a virtual standstill following its revolution, Cuba replaced it, leading worldwide ...