Cuba & the USA: an intertwined history
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Cuba and the American Revolution
Cuba is consistently in the top three of trading partners for the United States. Thomas Jefferson had an interesting idea regarding the island. John Quincy Adams said Cuba's like an apple and when it becomes ripe it will fall from its tree. The language they used to talk about it is so interesting I mean there in Adams case it's kind of a law of physics right in They make it seem inevitable of course an apple will fall from the tree.
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