In the 1970s Haiti, like much of Latin America, was rural, made up mostly of small farmers. Its economy actually grew at a respectable 2.5% per year, and its GDP was better than that of most Central American countries. Haiti was poor, but able to feed itself.
And then US policy makers saw the opportunity to further enrich the $100 billion garment industry, while at the same time to dump heavily subsidized US agricultural products. In a cynical move, the US policy makers designed a Plan that would use International Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs) to help carry out their scheme to deliberately destroy Haiti's farm economy thereby harming the "poorest of the poor," the very people the NGOs are assigned to help.
As it turns out, CARE had become involved in what was a very deliberate undermining of the Haitian peasant economy, the cornerstone of a plan that the World Bank and USAID had designed. This is how it happened. (Travesty in Haiti, Pg. 107)
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