Hillary Clinton and Haiti
April 11, 2016
Hillary Clinton and Haiti
by Ricardo Seitenfus
The Clintons high-profile interest in Haiti dates back almost all the way to their wedding in 1975. Shortly after their honeymoon in Acapulco, Bill and Hillary Clinton received an invitation from David Edwards a friend and Citibank executive to accompany him to Haiti.
Edwardss motivation in getting the Clintons closer to Haiti was neither cultural nor humanitarian. The reason was Citibanks long-standing financial interests in the country, which now go back over a century.
In 1909, the National City Bank of New York Citibank acquired a majority stake in the National Bank of Haiti, an institution that had been under French control and which, since 1880, held the power to issue paper money and to serve as central bank for the Haitian treasury. In 1914, Roger Leslie Farnham in charge of the Caribbean region at Citibank pressed Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan for Washington to militarily intervene in Haiti in order to protect U.S. interests. One year later, 19 years of occupation would begin for the country.
It was only the beginning of U.S. meddling in the affairs of its poorer neighbor.
More:
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/04/11/hillary-clinton-and-haiti/
Rebkeh
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(164 posts)secondwind
(16,903 posts)Duval
(4,280 posts)Uncle Joe
(58,366 posts)Thanks for the thread, Judi Lynn.
Judi Lynn
(160,545 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,670 posts)We (the US of A) has a long and brutal history of meddling in the affairs of Latin American countries, usually at the behest of some large corporate entity out to exploit them for profit.
I think half of all the great South American literature is in protest to Americans fucking with them. It's why in many of those countries, we're not considered the good guys.