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Yes, it was a Spanish Colony until the end of the Spanish American War.

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Cuba was no longer a colony of Spain when Spain lost the Island to the United States of America in the war of 1898. Cuba had been granted a charter of autonomy by the Kingdom of Spain in 1897, which gave Cuba a status similar to the status granted by Britain to Canada. Neither the constitution of Canada nor that of Cuba could be modified without the agreement of the national parliament, which sat in London and Madrid respectively. The charter granted to Cuba by Spain could be annulled only by means of a referendum and a vote in the Cuban and Spanish parliaments. Porto Rico had also been granted autonomy, and Spain was not free to cede it either to the United States without a referendum and a favorable vote

in the Puerto Rican and Spanish parliaments, and without a further vote in the Spanish

Parliament authorizing the Crown to alienate Spanish territory. The Spanish Parliament did not in the event grant this authority, but the Crown proceeded to abandon its first two autonomous provinces of the Kingdom

claiming that alienating national territory in this case was legal, inasmuch as the King had the power under the constitution to conduct war.

The Kingdom repeated the mistake in 1975 when it allowed Morocco to occupy Spain's Sahara after the Green Farce organized by Morocco.

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No, both Cuba and Mexico had been colonies of Spain since their beginnings. Mexico had won its independence in 1825, but Cuba was still a Spanish Colony in 1898. The US felt that the crumbling Spanish Empire had no business clinging to anything in this hemisphere.

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Cuba was a Spanish colony, later taken by the United States in 1898 (during the Spanish-American War).

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No, Cuba is a nation - The Republic of Cuba.

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No. Cuba was colonized by Spain

Actually, it was colonized by the French, then the Chinese (Don't ask why they did) and then the Spanish

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