Haiti under U.S. domination (1915–1956)

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The 1915 Intervention In Haiti
Paper by the International Law of War Association, n.d. In 1915 the National City Bank of New York was the principle U.S. investor in Haiti. Its interests were threatened by the Haitian government's issuance of inflationary currency. Documentation for what ensued.
Leaders promised fast results in Haiti and Iraq—then met hard going
By Bernard Diederich & Don Bohning, The Miami Herald, 9 November 2003. Modern warfare changed dramatically between President Woodrow Wilson's 1915 order to intervene in Haiti and President Bush's decision in March to invade Iraq, but the U.S. experience that began in Port-au-Prince 88 years ago has eerie similarities.
The first U.S. occupation of Haiti
Haiti Progres, 21–27 August 2002. The first U.S. military occupation of Haiti lasted 19 years. We present passages from The United States Occupation of Haiti: 1915–1934 by Hans Schmidt (1971), the definitive English language account of that intervention.
APN denounces U.S. military occupations, past and present
In Haiti Progres, This Week in Haiti, 29 July–4 August 1998. July 28, 1998 is the 83rd anniversary of the U.S. Marine invasion of Haiti in 1915, which began a 19 year military occupation. The APDSD branch of the National Popular Assembly (APN), issues a statement analyzing the similarity between 1915 and today.
Then & now: U.S. occupations: Leaders promised fast results in Haiti and Iraq—then met hard going
By Bernard Diederich and Don Bohning, The Herald, Sunday 9 November 2003. Modern warfare changed dramatically between President Woodrow Wilson's 1915 order to intervene in Haiti and President Bush's decision in March to invade Iraq, but the U.S. experience that began in Port-au-Prince 88 years ago has eerie similarities to her incursion into Iraq.
A Compromise Solution
By Joseph Alfred, Haiti list, 26 January 2003. I'm working currently on a small project on Cacos movement during the US occupation. It was predominantly from the north but the peasant of Marche à Terre who were not involved in the Caco movement had paid a serious price just for dressing in their usual attire. The American Marines were confused, opened fire and many peaceful peasants were killed. Today, we see the same type of phenomenon taking place in Haiti: Confusion.
Self-Determining Haiti: The American Occupation
By James Weldon Johnson, The Nation, 28 August 1920. James Weldon Johnson's 1920 exposé for The Nation, Self-Determining Haiti, argued that the US really has been quite ignoble.
Hearing the Truth About Haiti
By Helena Hill Weed, The Nation, 9 November 1921. How Haiti was reduced to the state of a conquered province; how the process was prepared in Washington long before intervention began; how little excuse there was for American intervention, and how little America has accomplished there apart from killing Haitians.
Franklin Roosevelt on Haiti: 1928!!!
By Bob Corbett, 15 June 1995. Roosevelt, who visited Haiti, reflects on it and its significance for US foreign policy.
Review of Richard Dohrman, The Cross of Baron Samedi
By Bob Corbett, 1 July 1995. The era of the first US occupation, which ended in 1934.
La bataille de Vertières continue
Extract of a speech given by Louis Mercier, at Vertieres on November 18, 1936. The battle of Vertières goes on for us. We are still in the grasp of the forces of evil and destruction. All the stupid and deadly prejudices are still alive in our hearts and we still have a colonial mentality.
A dialog on Navassa Island
June 1995. Interesting history of this island which both Haiti and the US claim as their own.
Plantation Dauphin; Some history
1 Nov 1996. The plantation was sold to Haitian American Sugar Company (HASCO) in 1955. The planation In 1926–27 was the toy of a Wall Street financier and became a major source of sisal in the world.
The anti-superstition campaign of 1941-42
A dialog on Bob Corbett's Haiti list. Citations for Catholic missionary rejeté campaign against voudou in the forties to remove the Satanic influences from Haitian culture.
Politics and the military, 1934–1957
The Library of Congress, Country Studies, December 1989. The Garde was a new kind of military institution in Haiti. It was a force manned overwhelmingly by blacks, with a United States-trained black commander, Colonel Démosthènes Pétrus Calixte. Most of the Garde's officers, however, were mulattoes. The Garde was a national organization; it departed from the regionalism that had characterized most of Haiti's previous armies.
Paul Magloire: Military ruler behind Haiti's brief golden age of peace
By Greg Chamberlain, in The Guardian, 20 July 2001. Obituary of General Paul Magloire, who ruled as President from 1950 to 1956, which in the writer's view was a period of unusual peace and efforts at modernisation before the long dictatorship of the Duvalier family laid waste to Haiti.