We remember the work of Dr. Leonard Wood. the young Army surgeon who became Military Governor of Cuba after the ouster of Spain. in that capacity helped the Cuban people with U.S. support to recover rapidly from the ravages of war. We remember too. that the United States established a special sugar quota systems during the great depression of the 1930s with a view to stabilizing the price of Cubas principal export in order to save that country from dire distress. Castro and Che Guevara have tried to put a sinister construction on that generous act of International cooperation. claiming that the increased price for sugar made possible by the U.S. quota system saddled Cuba with a onecrop economy. Ironically. Cuba under Castro finds that sugar remains Cubas chief source of income.
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