THE PLATT AMENDMENT Following the end of the Spa

Following the end of the SpanishAmerican War, which was primarily a vehicle used by the Republican Administration and Republican majority Congress to divert public attention away from legislation that pandered to big business monopolists, and which both began and ended in 1898, the Cubans has the audacity to want to establish their own government free from colonization and foreign control. The United States was engaged in a policy of establishing American hegemony and an "auspicious environment" for American investment in the Caribbean region, however, and a completely free Cuba did not mesh with this policy. American capital required in the Caribbean countries "a docile working class, a passive peasantry, a compliant bourgeoisie, and a subservient political elite." The United States was embarked on the building of an American empire, and Cuba was a major building block in this design.

Therefore, rather that allow the Cubans to form their own free government, the United States occupied Cuba in the place of the formerly oppressive Spanish, forced the Cubans to cede territory for the establishment of an American naval station, forced the Cubans to accede to limitations of national sovereignty, and forced the Cuban to accept an agreement that authorized future American intervention in Cuban affairs. These conditions for Cuban independence were "appended directly into the (Cuban) Constitution of 1901, and negotiated later into the Permanent Treaty of 1

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s with an opportunity to gain control of the project. Unfortunately, however, the Americans could not negotiate satisfactory arrangements with the Colombian government to allow an American takeover of the canal project. The sticking point was an American demand for a 100 year lease on a 10 kilometer wide strip across the Isthmus of Panama. In response to the failure to gain Colombian governmental assent for American control over the canal project, a revolutionary junta was formed in Panama. The junta was headed by the president of the American owned Panama Railroad Company, Jose Augustin Arango. The American government immediately announced support for the junta, and warned Colombia against armed action to subdue the revolution in their own country. In November 1903, the junta "with the protection of United States naval forces, carried out a successful uprising against the Colombian government."n 1846, the United States and Colombia negotiated a treaty which permitted the United States to intervene militarily in the Isthmus of Panama in the event of disorder. In 1903, in the wake of American fomented disorder, the United States government invoked this treaty to prevent "a Colombian force from moving across the isthmus . . .

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