Think there was another thread on this. Once found a site which talked about Spain during the US Civil War. That site mentioned that decades before the US Civil War the US was pestering Spain for Cuba. They wanted to buy Cuba and even some US politicians talked about taking Cuba by force from Spain.
Found the site titled "Spain and the American Civil War". Really informative.
http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/civil-war-cubans/US-Civil-War-Spain.pdf
And it would be easy to keep Cuba out of the US. Most people in Cuba had fought hard for there liberation to just give it all up to another nation. And it has been said that without US intervention they would have stilled become independent. It just would just probably have taken a little more time.
Found the site titled "Spain and the American Civil War". Really informative.
http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/civil-war-cubans/US-Civil-War-Spain.pdf
And it would be easy to keep Cuba out of the US. Most people in Cuba had fought hard for there liberation to just give it all up to another nation. And it has been said that without US intervention they would have stilled become independent. It just would just probably have taken a little more time.
@Dan1988 - You are right it would be easy for you to have PR. become independent by just having the 1868 insurrection succeed.When the United States invaded Cuba, it did so without allying with the Cubans. The U.S. propaganda machine turned out stories of the Americans going to rescue the Cubans. In truth, the Cubans did not need saving; already they had nearly won the conflict. The U.S. government proceeded without regard for Cuban interests. The United States pursued such tactics because if it had allied with the Cubans, the United States would have been forced to give diplomatic recognition to Cuba.