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Politics : About that Cuban boy, Elian -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Master (Hijacked) who wrote (1498)	4/21/2000 8:40:00 PM
From: marcos	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9127

"April 21 The Spanish Government considered the Joint Resolution of the United States of April 20 a declaration of war. U.S. minister in Madrid General Steward L. Woodford received his passport before presenting the ultimatum of the United States. A state of war existed between Spain and the United States and all diplomatic relations were suspended. President McKinley ordered blockade of Cuba. Spanish forces in Santiago de Cuba mined Guant namo Bay. The Spanish authorities in Cuba issued manifestos and other notices to the population and to the Spanish Army that a state of war existed with the United States." 102 years ago today - lcweb.loc.gov Mart¡ - lcweb.loc.gov Maceo - lcweb.loc.gov Overview - lcweb.loc.gov "For this reason he [Mart¡] thought that Cubans had to achieve a quick victory and then present Washington with their political emancipation as an accomplished fact. Otherwise, they could very well shed their blood merely to exchange one master for another." [...] "When Washington entered the Cuban struggle for independence and eventually destroyed the rebel military organization and the institutions it had created, Cuba became a tabula rasa politically once more." Among the yanquis there were men of thought - "There must be two Americas: one that sets the captive free, and one that takes a once-captive's new freedom away from him, and picks a quarrel with him with nothing to found it on; then kills him to get his land. . . " "...we have debauched America's honor and blackened her face before the world." lcweb.loc.gov Sadly, not enough .... then.