that the best way to overturn an entrenched domestic political faction was to provoke a visit from the United States marines. In view of the 'obligations' stipulated in the Platt Amendment, this was achieved by instigating civil war. 'We prefer a new American intervention that will guarantee future legal elections,' declared a rebel leader in 1906," and President Theodore Roosevelt obliged the rebel leader. The American troops sent in by Roosevelt stayed on the ground in Cuba that time until 1909. This occupation followed the occupation of 1989 1902 following the end of the Spanish American War. In 1911, 1912, 1914, and 1917,
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