29360: Walton (Info) RE: 29359: Laforest (Questions) The U.S. occupation of 1915 (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Robert <rawalton0@excite.com>


Some online references relating to the US ocupation of Haiti 1915-1934

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/haiti19.htm
http://haitiforever.com/windowsonhaiti/am-occup.htm

A Google search using "Haiti 1915" yieled hundreds of returns, all reasonably balanced, none of them complimentary, IMHO.

Regarding whether the invasion/occupation influenced Haitian self-perception, no conclusion can be drawn without first obtaining a valid study of the self-perception that existed prior to the invasion for comparison.  I am unaware of any such study.

Bob Walton

 --- On Fri 10/20, Bob Corbett < corbetre@webster.edu > wrote:
From: Bob Corbett [mailto: corbetre@webster.edu]
To: haiti@lists.webster.edu
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 16:59:18 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: 29359:  Laforest (Questions) The U.S. occupation of 1915

<br><br>From: Me Robert Laforest <lawyerha@hotmail.com><br><br>I would like to discuss the situation of Haiti in 1915 and the effects of that <br>invasion on our present situation, if any ...<br><br>In 1915:<br>-  were we on the road to finding a true Haitian solution to our devellopment <br>and our success as a country with the capacity to feed its children and provide <br>opportunity if not for all but for most of them? and is that a criteria for <br>success as a country ?<br><br>-  Did the US, by invading us, change our perception of who we were and the <br>direction in which we were moving as a country and as a community ?<br><br>I have notice a general tendency for Haitians to glorify the past of the <br>country without taking into account how our perception of that past affects our <br>present and our future.<br><br><br>

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