When the slave colony Haiti overthrew their French slave-masters and became free, the entire world, outraged that they would have the nerve to shake off an imperial power, embargoed Haiti, with the French demanding staggering reparation payments that have left Haiti socially and economically crippled ever since.

In 1915 America occupied Haiti to protect its interests in the area, and stayed there until 1934, in which time over two thousand Haitian civilians were slaughtered. Their next move was to pressure Haiti to remove all their tariffs so American rice could be dumped there--Haitian dependence on imported food has led to a chronic shortage today, with fairly recent riots. The States then turned Haiti into a giant sweat shop to service global capitalism.

As if all that weren't enough, in 2004 the U.S. intrigued an overthrow of Haitian president Aristide and whisked him off in the night....see, Aristide had had the nerve to double Haitian minimum wage (thereby rendering them incapable of corporate exploitation), trying to nationalize things, and demanding France compensate them for what they'd done to them with the reparations.

My question, then, is....WHY THE FUCK IS THE WORLD OKAY WITH THIS?
overgrowthegovt Reviewed by overgrowthegovt on . The U.S. government's brutalization of Haiti When the slave colony Haiti overthrew their French slave-masters and became free, the entire world, outraged that they would have the nerve to shake off an imperial power, embargoed Haiti, with the French demanding staggering reparation payments that have left Haiti socially and economically crippled ever since. In 1915 America occupied Haiti to protect its interests in the area, and stayed there until 1934, in which time over two thousand Haitian civilians were slaughtered. Their next move Rating: 5