With the period of revolutionary convulsion of the 30, amen of the result of the energetic struggle of our people in that epoch, the imperialism operated of such form that, offered to the world a new image of its political masked of the "Good neighbor", creating the illusion that important changes were taking place.
It is so how the Amendment was repealed.
On May 29th, 1934 there was signed a new Treaty of Relations modifying that of 1902, on having left without effect its articles I, II and III where there was stipulated the right of the United States to intervene in Cuba.
The agreement of 34 only changed the form of domination, the content was still specified in the Article II, that from the occupation up to the establishment of the Republic, all the acts realized in our territory by the United States (...) have been ratified and valid; and all the rights legally acquired by virtue of these acts will be supported and protected (...)
The government of Carlos Mendieta (1934-1935), but really submitted to the Yankee plans by means of the ambassador Jefferson Caffery and the servile militarism of Fulgencio Batista, needed an appearance of legal and political normality.
Once again the subsequent conquests to the overthrow of the government of Gerardo Machado (1925-1933) were removed, for what they began with the postponement of the Constituent Assembly which call had been foreseen for the first semester of this year, and in practice it was not done until 1940.
The history of Cuba, real, well-known and studied by generations of compatriots, is full of innumerable moments of clashes with the neighbors of the North; one after the other, the Cuban presidents of the republican period were only simple instruments handled to the whim of the American ambassadors, that under protection of the above-mentioned Treaty, or of many laws, etc, etc, did not allow us to stop being a neocolony. The Platt Amendment was not necessary.
As well reviewed in an article of the epoch of the newspaper The Washington Post, "(...) The United States have resigned to the responsibility for the maintenance of the law and the order inside the Island, but our right to intervene for the protection of the lives and properties of the Americans still survives. All the friends of Cuba and the United States encourage the hope that the things do not derive towards the point in which similar action becomes necessary(...)"
In the historical analysis of the Cuban Revolution presented in the Central Report to the First Congress of the Party, is expressed: "(...) The Platt Amendment was abolished like result of the energetic struggle of our people in this epoch. And even if the United States reserved the right to intervene in any republic of Latin America, that humiliating clause stopped being a prescript of our Magna Carta (...)
Followed an uncertain epoch (...) The revolutionary tide descended and Batista consolidated his power for many years (...)"
Without doubts, the business worked out for them.
80 years have passed from the day in which the Yankees threw to the dumpster the Amendment, the last 55 full of inconveniences, scheming and passing laws and homologous resolutions, in which in a detailed and express way their real plans have been revealed with regard to our country.
Those years, as the historian Emilio Roig would say, had certain decency on having given the sensation to the world, and principally to the peoples of the Spanish America, of which it was a reality the abandonment of the interventionism "(...) It was at least, to erase an offensive spot of the face of the homeland, although it kept the stab on the side (...)"
It does not matter the name with which today they sign the fatidical and eternal dream of returning to the neocolony in Cuba, the thousands of sheets of paper signed per years contain this intention, with the difference that the business of now will not work out for them.
Translated by BA in English Language, Manuel Barrera Téllez
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