Stripping the Poor

1994
Blockade against military government; troops restore President Aristide to office three years after coup.

"[After] early 1994... Washington's negotiators made one demand that Aristide could not accept: the immediate selloff of Haiti's state-owned enterprises, including phones and electricity. Aristide argued that unregulated privatization would transform state monopolies into private oligarchies, increasing the riches of Haiti's elite and stripping the poor of their national wealth."

—Naomi Klein