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Anti-vagrancy laws were meant to intimidate freed Black citizens.

In 1970, Noriega was made Panama's chief of military intelligence. A year later he was formally put on the payroll of the CIA

Apartheid was billed as a mark of American modernity.

In 1954 the CIA orchestrated the overthrow of Guatemala's president, Jacobo Arbenz. America accused him of Communists sympathies but his real crime was trying to expropriate uncultivated farm lands and redistribute them to the poor.

Those who had gone to Cuba with the idea that they were going to save a people who were fair skinned were shocked to learn that most of the Cuban army and 40% of its officers were Black.

The American empire had a spoon in everybody's soup.

As many American thinkers and officials saw it, most people on their own continent didn't deserve full rights, much less bronze skinned islanders on a distant archipelago.

Before going to war, Butler had dreamed of getting shot. Not too seriously but sufficient to leave a scar.

The Chinese refer to the "Hundred Years of Humiliation" as the period that officially starts with the Opium War in 1842 and ends with the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949.

Under Batista multiple U.S. corporations and banks including the powerful United Fruit Company gained control of Cuban sugar, tobacco, railroads, mining, and utilities.

"Foreclosing Black citizenship seemed a small price to pay for reunion between North and South, and between Northern capital and Southern capitalist."

In the aftermath of 1898 the U.S. appropriations bill said the U.S. could invade Cuba whenever it wanted and barred future Cuban governments from making treaties with other powers.

White troops showed less contempt for the white skinned Spanish enemy before them than for the Blacks battling alongside them.

In the days when Cuba was a U.S. tourists playground Guantanamo Bay was known as a low pressure post of tropical sunsets and carnivals sponsored by Bacardi rum.

Guantanamo Bay was not only the first place Butler was deployed but the first place the U.S forces invaded in 1898 war that displaced Cuba's incipient democracy.