On June 12, 1901, in a secret session of the Constituent Assembly, the Platt Amendment was approved, an appendix to the Constitution of the Republic that transformed Cuba into a neo-colony of the United States. The decision was taken by the approval of 16 delegates, 11 were against, while four abstained, a painful milestone in the history of Cuban politics. The pressure exerted by figures like Leonard Wood, military governor of the United States…
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On June 12, 1901, in a secret session of the Constituent Assembly, the Platt Amendment was approved, an appendix to the Constitution of the Republic that transformed Cuba into a neo-colony of the United States. The decision was taken by the approval of 16 delegates, 11 were against, while four abstained, a painful milestone in the history of Cuban politics. The pressure exerted by figures like Leonard Wood, military governor of the United States…