Rawlings Sport moved its baseball industry from Haiti to Costa Rica

[Captain Hilts]

beginning in the 1980s. Costa Ricans would work for lower wages and didn't have the political instability.

http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/11870

[hlthe2b]

1. I realize that had some impact... but much greater were US

and World Bank trade policies that devastated their original sugar, cofee, and rice production... Haiti went from a self-sustaining economy to one that had clear-cut its trees and had to import, even rice.. Aruguably this was a much greater (and long-lived) impact than loss of baseball production.

[Captain Hilts]

2. Sugar is a fascinating political football that has hurt Haiti and the Philippines,

among others.