Why was cuba made a protectorate of the united states rather than given its own sovereignty?

United States made Cuba a protectorate to best serve its interests. By enforcing the Teller amendment that that ensures that U.s would not control the island except for pacification but the Platt amendment grant them the right to buy or lease land for the coaling station and naval bases. U.S intervention was always there which could not be held by granting Sovereignty.

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