The debt was actually so ridiculous that France knew we wouldn't be able to pay it back. This was their punishment to us. So where does Citibank feature in this story? - ThreadSky

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baronsaturday.bsky.social • 35 days ago

The debt was actually so ridiculous that France knew we wouldn't be able to pay it back. This was their punishment to us.

So where does Citibank feature in this story?

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baronsaturday.bsky.social•35 days ago

By 1914, Haiti was in such economic turmoil that the USA decided to take advantage. National Citybank, now Citigroup, gets into the USA's ear and gets them to do something ridiculous: march 8 US Marines into the national bank and get them to walk out with half a million dollars in gold.

baronsaturday.bsky.social•35 days ago

It took mere days for the gold to land in Wall Street banks.

baronsaturday.bsky.social•35 days ago

The next year, the USA comes in and occupies Haiti and subjects the people to horrible and abusive actions for the next 19 years. We learn in school that the start of the invasion was the murder of Vilbrun Guillaume Sam in the French embassy by the people, but that's not the whole story.

baronsaturday.bsky.social•35 days ago

The USA believed that only they, as a force for good, could come in and help Haiti from the situation it was in. If not them, then Europe would. This was their backyard, so they'd handle it.

At least, that's what they claimed.

baronsaturday.bsky.social•35 days ago

Hard to agree when USA officials would pay themselves more money per year, using our funds, then they spent on the Haitian people.

baronsaturday.bsky.social•35 days ago

Smedley D. Butler, in his book "War is a Racket," called himself a "racketeer for capitalism" for participating in this farce, and he absolutely was. The United States, under the influence of Citigroup's predecessor, stole our money, killed our people, and destroyed our nation.

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