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title: '"Cuba''s Choice" (Puck cover, 3 September 1902)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/cubas-choice-puck-1902/
description: 'A woman with a hat marked ''Cuba'' stands with arms crossed at a fork of three roads: ''Reciprocity'' leading to an angry ''Beet Sugar Senator''.'
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# "Cuba's Choice" (Puck cover, 3 September 1902)

A woman with a hat marked 'Cuba' stands with arms crossed at a fork of three roads: 'Reciprocity' leading to an angry 'Beet Sugar Senator', 'Cuban Loan' leading to Uncle Sam holding the 'Platt Amendment', and a road to the Capitol marked 'Annexation'. The tell: three signposts set the options, and the caption says events are 'fast limiting her to one path.'

Puck ran this cover on 3 September 1902, after Cuba had become nominally independent in May under the Platt Amendment. A woman in a hat marked 'Cuba' stands with arms crossed at a fork of three roads: 'Reciprocity' leads to an angry 'Beet Sugar Senator', 'Cuban Loan' to Uncle Sam holding the 'Platt Amendment', and a third to the Capitol marked 'Annexation'. False dilemma is the tagged technique: three signposts set the options, and the caption says events are 'fast limiting her to one path.'

## Propaganda techniques used in this cartoon

[False dilemma](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/false-dilemma/)

## Full record

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