Reply #1: A coup for raw resources & labor

[Tinoire]

In a country of almost unbelievable poverty, where 85% of the people live on $1 a day, nearly all the raw materials are controlled by US corporations, and companies such as Disney which use it as a source of cheap manufacturing.

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Hardly surprising then, that certain US commercial interests would view Aristide and his motives with some disdain. Likewise the so-called Haitian elite have similar vested interests. There is “a growing enthusiasm among businessmen to use the rebels as a security force” said a report from the Los Angeles Times after the remnants of the Haitian army that helped engineer the coup descended on the capital.