US Intervention In Haiti

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like USAID. Presidents George Bush and Bill Clinton both
focussed constantly upon short range goals such as winning the election in
1993 and they were willing to sacrifice long term interests in the pursuit
of these goals. The US would be far better served by a democratic, stable
and prosperous Haiti than one that is mired in civil unrest and abject
poverty. This was not the first time the US had attempted to impress its
will upon the tiny nation and undoubtably it will not be the last.
The US called in international organizations to legitimize its actions.
Specifically the OAS in 1991 and the UN in 1993. By using the UN the way it
did, the US has given the impression that the UN is merely an instrument of
the US and the UN policies are shaped in Washington. This reduces the
legitimizing power of the Security Council and creates the image that the
"UN issues the warrants and the US makes the arrests"(1) based, of course,
on US interests. Despite this the UN has done a ...

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the French colony of Saint-Domingue
revolted against their enslavers and after twelve bloody years of war they
created the world's first black republic. This was the only successful
slave insurrection in history.(3) The new Haitian elites, composed
primarily of the grown children of mixed marriages between French
plantation owners and black slave women, instantly began to treat the rural
peasant/slave masses in the same fashion as the French overlords had. They
turned the fiscal and marketing systems into mechanisms that would allow
them to siphon off the wealth produced by the peasants. They heavily taxed
food and other necessities while leaving luxury items, which they
themselves ...

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