{"id":5854,"date":"2021-08-18T19:58:27","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T19:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=5854"},"modified":"2021-08-18T19:58:27","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T19:58:27","slug":"cuban-leaders-have-long-relied-on-anti-imperialist-anger-this-time-its-not-working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=5854","title":{"rendered":"Cuban Leaders Have Long Relied on Anti-Imperialist Anger. This Time, It\u2019s Not Working."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;Since the early 1960s, the Cuban government, often with justification, has relied on a critique of U.S. intervention, embargo and hostility to explain its persistent economic difficulties. For many Cubans, however, that formula long ago lost its power. Instead, today\u2019s protestors have targeted the revolutionary imagination itself and its failure to deliver either bread or freedom \u2014 whether freedom from domestic or foreign powers.&#8221;<br>&#8230;<br>&#8220;In the first half of the 20th century, the need to shore up the island\u2019s economy meant the relationship with the United States was rarely decided in favor of Cuban autonomy. By the 1950s, the symbols of U.S. economic hegemony in Cuba \u2014 from the notorious United Fruit Company in the east to a sprawling, often illicit, tourism economy in Havana \u2014 had become galling to many. This, along with the U.S. government\u2019s willingness to prop up an increasingly unpopular dictator (Batista) inspired many to join the movement to overturn his government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After the revolution against Batista brought Fidel Castro to power in 1959, tensions between Cuba and the United States escalated quickly amid Cold War-era U.S. interventions throughout the hemisphere. This geopolitical context inspired and accelerated the radicalization of Cuban domestic politics and gave anti-imperialism an increasingly central place in the government\u2019s rhetoric.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2021\/07\/15\/cuba-protest-blame-government-imperialism-revolution-499760\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2021\/07\/15\/cuba-protest-blame-government-imperialism-revolution-499760<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Since the early 1960s, the Cuban government, often with justification, has relied on a critique of U.S. intervention, embargo and hostility to explain its persistent economic difficulties. For many Cubans, however, that formula long ago lost its power. Instead, today\u2019s protestors have targeted the revolutionary imagination itself and its failure to deliver either bread or freedom \u2014 whether freedom from domestic or foreign powers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the first half of the 20th century, the need to shore up the island\u2019s economy meant the relationship with the United States was rarely decided in favor of Cuban autonomy. By the 1950s, the symbols of U.S. economic hegemony in Cuba \u2014 from the notorious United Fruit Company in the east to a sprawling, often illicit, tourism economy in Havana \u2014 had become galling to many. This, along with the U.S. government\u2019s willingness to prop up an increasingly unpopular dictator (Batista) inspired many to join the movement to overturn his government.<br \/>\nAfter the revolution against Batista brought Fidel Castro to power in 1959, tensions between Cuba and the United States escalated quickly amid Cold War-era U.S. interventions throughout the hemisphere. This geopolitical context inspired and accelerated the radicalization of Cuban domestic politics and gave anti-imperialism an increasingly central place in the government\u2019s rhetoric.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1210,272,355,1347,689,134,619],"class_list":["post-5854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-cuba","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-imperialism","tag-international-comparisons","tag-propaganda","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5855,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5854\/revisions\/5855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}