It's quite striking that the arguments being made for a U.S. intervention in Haiti are so alike the ones that were used to justify the 1915-34 occupation.
It's not just the bit about restoring order and stability after the murder of the president, though there is that.
It's also the wider basis for intervention, which sound verbatim from the occupation period.
It's also the wider basis for intervention, which sound verbatim from the occupation period.
Consider this, from @MiamiHerald:
An occupying coalition "could do immense good very quickly by picking five critical things to focus on so that basic life in Haiti can continue: good roads, reliable electricity, clean water, policing that works & COVID vaccines, for example."
An occupying coalition "could do immense good very quickly by picking five critical things to focus on so that basic life in Haiti can continue: good roads, reliable electricity, clean water, policing that works & COVID vaccines, for example."
New roads, an expanded water infrastructure, police reform, and a vaccination campaigns were the central "accomplishments" of the 1915 occupation.
The imperial imagination has not changed much over the past century.
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