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US Intervention in Haiti

Authored by Michael Pate on March 2nd, 2004 at 1:22 PM

Must has been made in the past few days about how the United States left Haiti too soon after Operation Uphold Democracy in 1994. Everyone would do well to remember these words from 1928.

In Haiti a worse situation faced us. That Republic was in chronic trouble, and it as it is close to Cuba the bad influence was felt across the water. Presidents were murdered, governments fled, several time a year. [sic: he really said that!] We landed our marines and sailors only when the unfortunate Chief Magistrate of the moment was dragged out of the French Legation, cut into six pieces and thrown to the mob. Here again we cleaned house, restored order, built public works and put governmental operation on a sound and honest basis. We are still there. It is true, however, that in Santo Domingo and especially in Haiti we seem to have paid too little attention to making the citizens of these states more capable of reassuming the control of their own governments. But we have done a fine piece of material work, and the world ought to thank us. - Franklin Delano Roosevelt

What he is referring to is the United States Occupation of Haiti, 1915-1934. Let us hope for the sake of the people of Haiti, that things go better this time.

Links in this entry:

Franklin D. Roosevelt on Haiti in 1928
Haiti's Bicentennial: What's to Celebrate?
Haiti: The U.S.-Led Intervention, 1994
Number of Marines in Haiti to grow to 400 by late Monday
The United States Occupation of Haiti, 1915-1934

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