In 1898, US troops defeated the armies of Spain in the first inter-imperialist war of the modern era. US troops landed in Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Philippines and Guam – colonies of Spain until then.

The people of Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines had been waging a war for independence against the Spanish colonizers. José Martí, the Cuban revolutionary leader and founder of the Revolutionary Party in Cuba and Puerto Rico, had warned against the danger of domination by the rising imperialist power of Washington.

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