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Just as the magazine Puck related through an 1897 cartoon of Uncle Sam waiting for the fruit of Cuba to fall into his basket, with the headline: “Patient Waiters Are Not Losers.”Under ran the caption, with Uncle Sam saying as he looked up at the Cuban fruit: “I ain’t in a hurry; it’ll drop into my basket when it gets ripe”In his hamper was the previous harvest of California, Texas, Alaska and Louisiana. For Cuba to become part of the United States was simply a matter of time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Just as the magazine Puck related through an 1897 cartoon of Uncle Sam waiting for the fruit of Cuba to fall into his basket, with […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101011,"featured_media":3238,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3788,"url":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/cuban-foreign-minister-reaffirms-commitment-to-human-rights-and-denounces-aggressions\/","url_meta":{"origin":3237,"position":0},"title":"Cuban Foreign Minister reaffirms commitment to human rights and denounces aggressions","author":"Editorial Team","date":"February 23, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodr\u00edguez reiterated on Tuesday Cuba's commitment to the promotion and protection of human rights and denounced the economic, commercial, and financial blockade imposed by the United States. 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