What the United States wants, and can and cannot do, with Cuba

The U.S. desire to take over Cuba dates back to the country’s beginnings. As early as 1805, Thomas Jefferson, one of the so-called “Founding Fathers” of the United States, called Cuba “the most interesting addition that could be made to our system of states.” Barely 20 years later, then–Secretary of State John Quincy Adams introduced […]