104: The Road to the Spanish-American War
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As many as 500 thousand civiliands, roughly one third of the island's population, were moved to so called safe havens. These areas became cesspools of hunger, disease and starvation where thousands died. As these stories are documented in the american press, stories that will eventually take clara barton and the American red cross to cuba. Newly elected us President william mc kinley, though, isn't interested and chargin e ware. So how long can policy makers dance around these positions as atrocities occur on an island just a hundred miles off he us? Shoe? Well, one newspaper man is tired of if he's ready to take the scates.
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