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US Troops Out of Haiti

Submitted by John Reimann on Tue, 01/19/2010 - 8:41am.
If anybody thinks the US troops went into Haiti for humanitarian reasons, they should think again. They went in there to shore up the capitalist state. Of course, in order to do this, they had to do something about the total chaos of society there, but that is secondary, as their actions have clearly shown.

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worker Says:
Tue, 02/09/2010 - 2:53pm
worker Playing the Devil's Advocate Haiti has been run by the US military for a number of decades in the 20th century. If new "reports" from Haiti can be believed "they" have asked for the US to come in again and run things. We all know that US national interests ie, wealthy democrats and republicans prefer neoliberalism, dictates TINA. Haiti is the second oldest republic in the Western hemisphere where some of the most maltreated humans in the world took over the reins of self government. I have to ask ... For over two hundred years with Haitian leading Haitian they are still the most under developed in the Western hemisphere and the most dependent on the international community for help. Why is this? Or put another way why should the US care if there is a "capitalist" infrastructure in place? So it can prolong the economic subjugation of a people and country that has no economic significance to the US? It seems more complicated than blaming the Colossus of the North, its militarism or TINA. One aspect that is important to the US is that the Dominican Republic shares a common border with Haiti. Coffee, tobacco etc from Dominican Repub. is important to the US. And there is a very real concern in the DR and the US that if Haiti becomes more unstable than ushual then a mass migration from haiti into the DR would cause a huge humanitarian crisis.

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