Exposing Imperialism in Haiti
(Ed Augustin, 2014, 70 min., Mancha Productions, Havana)
 

 
Absolutely sensational footage showing, minute by minute, the U.S. coup d'etat in Haiti to overturn the democratic Aristide government and install a police state obedient to Washington. At last, a camera has captured what happens – unreported – in so many other countries where Marines are sent in to “restore democracy”. Mind-boggling. A must see for any political activist… and for all citizens of conscience.

 
Five facts about Haiti, as described in the documentary:

1: The US engineered exile of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the democratically elected and well-loved, yet twice-removed former priest;

2: The continued unjustified occupation of the country by United Nations troops, which took over from the U.S. Marines; they have killed many innocent people, raped local women and caused an epidemic of cholera, while providing very little "security" (most of the time they are on the beautiful, for-the-rich-only Haitian beaches, when they are not stopping protests and picketing);

3: The construction at Port-Au-Prince of the largest US Embassy in the world. Why not in London, Paris, Moscow or New Delhi? It is clearly an operational base for strategic control of the entire Caribbean region;

4: The vast number of mining and port licenses and contracts handed out without strings (including the privatization of Haiti's deep water ports); U.S. companies are permitted to do in Haiti what it would not be possible to do inside the U.S., because of environmental laws and other considerations;

5. The importation into Haiti of scores of US backed "Non Governmental Organizations"; these NGOs set political and social agendas and prevent Haitians from following their own developmental path.

 
Finally,

for a full description of how the United States maintains an iron grip on Haiti in order to exploit it
(which is what defines “imperialism”), see this article in Political Hotwire: U.S. imperialism in Haiti