mar 2, 1901 - Platt Amendment

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-defined terms of US-Cuba relations: unequal relationship, with US dominance over Cuba

-gave USA the right to military intervention whenever it wanted

-elections rigged in favour of candidates supported by USA

-USA dominated Cuban economy (trade + corporations)

-politicians that didn't support US economic policies unable to gain power/removed - only surviving governments were corrupt

-consequences: anti-Americanism, & idea that only force could achieve political + socioeconomic change in Cuba

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