http://alohahavana.com Mon, 14 Apr 2008 22:01:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 en http://alohahavana.com/?p=1 http://alohahavana.com/?p=1#comments Tue, 08 Apr 2008 22:29:53 +0000 ohnie http://alohahavana.com/?p=1 Aloha Havana: Big Sugar, The Cuban Revolution and Hawaii’s Statehood.

Hawaii, like Cuba is about to observe a 50th anniversary. As colonies annexed by the United States in 1898, both had a shared relationship with the sugar industry. Is there a relationship between Hawaii’s statehood and Cuba’s revolution, one that involves Big Sugar, the Southern Democrats of the 1950’s, and commodity fixing?

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