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3 weeks agoWelcome to McKinley: How the U.S. almost colonized a chunk of Cuba
In an abandoned cemetery on Cuba's Isla de la Juventud stands the weathered headstone of Estefania Koenig. When she died in 1981, at the ripe old age of 95, she was the last American of what had once been called the McKinley Colonies. A century ago, it was a thriving citrus-growing community, American in everything except the letter of the law. Then came a couple of devastating hurricanes - and the closure of a geopolitical loophole.
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