U.S. invades and occupies Haiti − in 1915
By G. Dunkel posted on July 15, 2021
This slightly edited article was originally published in Workers World/Mundo Obrero, August 3, 2015.
The United States began its military occupation of Haiti over a century ago, sending an armed force ashore on July 28, 1915, just south of Port-au-Prince. Somewhat earlier, a raiding party of U.S. Marines stole Haiti’s gold reserve of about $500,000 and turned it over to First National City Bank in New York — now Citibank.
One of the cacos, armed peasant guerillas who revolted against U.S. occupation of Haiti from 1915 through 1921.
Haitians — on the island and in its diaspora — have been fighting for over 200 years to resist forces of colonizing enslavement, imperialist racism and capitalist exploitation.