Reparations

Invade Haiti, Wall Street Urged. The U.S. Obliged

  • Posted on: 25 May 2022
  • By: Bryan Schaaf

The New York Times has run an excellent multi-part series on how the United States and France impoverished and de-stabilised while enriching themselves. The piece, copied below, is entitled "The Ransom" and covers how Wall Street, and in particular the Bank that became Citigroup, urged the US occupation of Haiti.  Other pieces in this series include "The Root of Haiti's Misery: Reparation to Enslavers", "Haiti's Lost Billions", and "How a French Bank Captured Haiti" and "Demanding Reparations and Ending Up in Exile."  Both in the past and at present Haitians struggle with racism, corporate greed, and political exploitation of other countries.  This aspect of Haitian history is rarely tought in the USA or France - but it should be.