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My heart today is about my recent trip to Cuba and

in shawlle are going to summarize some aspects of Cuba and the history of Cuba because obviously a lot of us are not aware of this.

So brief summary of what exactly this island is and why is this so different.

Cuba is of course the first or one of the first islands discovered by

Christopher Columbus. Actually, Christopher Columbus landed on Cuba. Before he

came here, he was actually buried on Cuba for 300 years and he named certain aspects and islands of Cuba as well.

There was some local indigenous Native Indians there obviously as is the case when Europeans came.

All of them are massacred but I was surprised to find out a few hundred of the original

Native Indians are still living in one corner of Cuba in their own area.

They're still speaking the original language, unlike many of us Native Indians here. They're almost

gone their heritage. They're still over there. But the Spanish took over Cuba for

500 years, 450 years, remained a part of Spain up until roughly 1900. When they rebelled and they wanted freedom,

our country America supported that freedom, supported that revolt, and they actually went to war, the American Spanish War around

1898. We went to war with Spain to free Cuba. Do you think we did so because of the goodness of our heart?

We had our own interests.

So as soon as the Spanish left Cuba, we installed a puppet regime and for the next 50-60 years Cuba became an American protectorate.

Complete corruption from our side, complete people in charge that are basically kowtoing to us rather than the old people,

their own people and for 60 years Cuba was officially independent but in reality it was completely dominated by our interest.

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