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07-23-2011, 09:07 PM
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carpartsho
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"...The Haitian rice industry collapsed when US subsidised rice was introduced.. the egg production collapsed during the embargo to restore Aristide when the DR egg produces exported (some Haitians say dumped.. at 2 pesos an egg) their excess eggs into Haiti.. All the used clothing /// yes, it is an industry but it also destroys work for the tailors and sewers... so it is complicated"
French ( their unfair "independence fee" or more exactly compensation to the slave masters and French state which was the first world sugar producer) and Imperialists (specially the US in the 20th century)
destroyed
Haiti and never forgive them for being the first slaves who emancipated themselves by war and the first black republic. Duvallier or Aristide being the same poison (corruption, stealing etc) and supported by western powers...
Plus English, US and Spain (in Santo Domingo) helped the slave revolt and the destroy of the French in Saint Domingue :
"...The fear that France would use Negro Troops from St Domingo to liberate the slaves in the United States, and in the British West Indies, and then annex the latter, if no more, was an important factor behind American and British diplomacy, particulary in 1799. A belief that a St Domingo politically independent of France, but economically dependent upon Great Britain and the United States, would be less dangerous to the slave holdings of both was vital in bringing those two nations to the support of Toussaint...In June 1799 the 3 powers signed an agreement giving english and American ships exclusive trading privileges..."
"American Negro Slave Revolts" by Herbert Aptheker p 43
Toussaint agreed to protect English ( whom he kicked out from Saint Domingue before the French arrived with Leclerc) and the US interests in the region (i.e not spread the slave rebellion in Jamaica and the US) and help them against the French if they attacked Jamaica or the southern part of the US.
Most of Haiti problems for those who had done their analysis can be explained by the "invisible hand" (in a negative sense) of the imperialists, only a revenge, they dared freed themselves from slavery...
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