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| 1902 |
| | Cuba becomes independent after three years of US military rule, with certain restrictions imposed by the Platt Amendment of 1901 | |
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| 1903 |
| | Cuba is forced to accept a permanent US military presence in Guantanamo Bay | |
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| 1912 |
| | President Taft sends US marines to Cuba because of political unrest in the island | |
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| 1915 |
| | Woodrow Wilson sends US marines to take control in Haiti after a spate of political assassinations | |
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| 1916 |
| | Haiti becomes a US protectorate, under the terms of a treaty signed in the previous year | |
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| 1916 |
| | Woodrow Wilson sends the marines to maintain order when the Dominican Republic slips towards civil war | |
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| 1917 |
| | The Jones Act gives Puerto Ricans US citizenship and a popularly elected Senate and House of Representatives | |
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| 1930 |
| | Rafael Trujillo establishes a dictatorship in the Dominican Republic that will last for 30 years | |
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| c. 1930 |
| | The steel-band tradition begins to develop in Trinidad, with adapted metal objects taking the place of traditional skin drums | |
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| c. 1930 |
| | The Rastafarian cult evolves in Jamaica, viewing Ras Tafari, the emperor of Ethiopia, as the black Messiah | |
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