Cuban grievances against the US date back to the end of the 19th century, it includes the US stealing Cuban land for our naval base at Guantanamo, and the use of US Marines to put down a rebellion of Cubans of color against the white puppet regime installed by the US (pretty much the same sort of puppet regime Bush intends to install in a post-Fidel Cuba).
1912 Cuban Pacification CampaignUS forces protected American interests on the Province of Oriente and in Havana from June 5 to August 5, 1912. In the spring of 1912, revolt again flared in Cuba, and Marines were once more called to the island. On 27 May, the 2d Provisional Regiment was formed at Philadelphia and Norfolk to reinforce the 1st Provisional Regiment already in Cuba. Under the command of Colonel James E. Mahoney, the regiment sailed in several vessels of the Navy for Cuba, where Companies B, D, and E helped quell the Negro Rebellion. Within two months, peace again prevailed in the island, and on 1 August, the 2d Provisional Regiment was disbanded, and its personnel were returned to the United States or detached to the newly reorganized 1st Provisional Regiment in Cuba.
The 2d Regiment, 2d Provisional Brigade was formed at Philadelphia on 19 February 1913. The regiment, under the command of Colonel Joseph H. Pendleton, was intended for duty in Mexico as part of the brigade. However, it was sent to Guantanamo Bay and held in readiness for emergency duties, meanwhile undergoing intensive training. On 1 May, the 2d Regiment was redesignated 2d Regiment, Expeditionary Force, USMC. It remained in Cuba until the latter part of the month, when it boarded the PRAIRIE for the United States, arriving at Philadelphia on 1 June, when it disbanded.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/cuba12.htmArmed Conflict of 1912
Armed rebellion against the Cuban government
Tulia Falleti, Article Author On May 20, 1912 a black armed rebellion against the Cuban government started in the province of Oriente, in the Southeast of Cuba. The rebellion, which the Cuban government and white elites soon named "Race War," lasted for more than two months. At least 3,000 Afro-Cubans were killed.
Led by the leaders of the Partido Independiente de Color (Independent Color Party) Evaristo Estenoz and Pedro Ivonnet, the rebellion was designed to force Cuban president, José Miguel Gómez (1909-1913), to repeal the Morúa law which had been passed in 1910 and outlawed the formation of political parties on racial lines, therefore banning the Partido Independiente de Color. Morúa himself was a mulatto. Just six months before the presidential elections of November, 1912, Estenoz thought that an armed uprising was the last possible resource that the Partido Independiente de Color had to fight against the Morúa law. On May 17, Estenoz arrived in the province of Oriente from a trip to the United States, and with his arrival the rumors of a black uprising spread. On May 18, the Cuban newspaper 'La Lucha' attributed an uprising in the town of Sagua la Grande in the province of Santa Clara to the Partido Independiente de Color. Although some uprisings took place in the provinces of Santa Clara and Matanzas--in the center of Cuba--mass arrests of party leaders and suspected sympathizers aborted all prospects of a coordinated national rebellion, and the movement was confined to the Southeastern province of Oriente. While Afro-Cubans constituted 30% of the total population nationally, they comprised over 40% of the Oriente population. (Data from 1907 Census in Fermoselle, 1974, p. 89; and Velasco, 1913, p.77). Furthermore, the socio-economic situation of the Afro-Cuban population in Oriente had rapidly deteriorated as a consequence of the expansion of sugar plantations and mills that eliminated communal lands and small farms. Afro-Cubans also saw their socio-economic condition worsened due to the increase of population and the introduction of cheaper labor from Haiti and Jamaica (López, 1986). Consequently, black protesters in Oriente attacked what they saw as the sources of their oppression and impoverished state: foreign property, cane fields and sugar mills.
Meanwhile, the newspapers repudiated the action of those men that, as one editorial would say, "had chosen to stop being Cubans, to be only blacks" ('La Lucha,' La Habana, May 27, 1912, p. 1) and stimulated the panic of a 'Negro uprising' among the white population. Whites in the countryside fled towards more secure places in towns and cities. President José Miguel Gómez suspended constitutional guarantees in the province of Oriente and organized his aides to form volunteer civilian militias against the black movement, supplying arms and ammunition. His goal was to exterminate the black movement, and prevent military intervention by the United States (due to the Platt Amendment of 1901 the U.S. had the right to intervene militarily in Cuba to protect U.S. citizens and their property in the island).
In sum, although almost no armed protest occurred outside of Oriente, the whole island was overcome with fear of a black takeover. "Government forces suspected the entire Afro-Cuban population of collaborating with the rebels. Blacks and mulattoes found in the fields were considered rebels, unarmed peasants were believed to have hidden their guns, and all were treated without mercy. Black men and women living in towns and villages were assumed to serve as spies for the independientes." (Helg 1995, 221) The army and militias persecuted, arrested, and killed Afro-Cubans all over the island. They were killed and left unburied on the sides of the roads or hanging in trees as symbols of the official forces' strength to repel the rebellion.
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