The turbulent history of US-Cuban relations

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"I think I could do anything I want with it": That's what Donald Trump said about Cuba mid-March. Yet he is hardly the first US president with such expansionist desires, notes historian Michael Zeuske, a professor at the Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies at the University of Bonn. Zeuske says the US had already set its sights on the island as early as the mid-19th century. Back then, Cuba was still a Spanish colony. In 1820, Thomas Jefferson, who had served as the third president of the

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