{"id":2039,"date":"2025-03-21T17:38:19","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T17:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/?p=2039"},"modified":"2025-06-05T12:44:44","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T11:44:44","slug":"neocolonialism-through-debt-how-french-and-us-banks-underdeveloped-haiti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/?p=2039","title":{"rendered":"Neocolonialism through Debt: How French and US banks underdeveloped Ha\u00efti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><big><strong>CLS zoom meeting &#8211;\u00a0 Sunday 4th May<\/strong><\/big><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oMPnwpt97pA?si=TSK-wfbI-9pffF-s&amp;start=2\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Speakers: <strong>Bernard Coard<\/strong> and <strong>Steve Cushion<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Two hundred years ago, the formerly enslaved population of the French colony of Saint Domingue defeated a French colonial army and declared the independent Republic of Ha\u00efti. Twenty years later, a French naval blockade forced the government of Ha\u00efti to agree to pay an indemnity of 150 million francs to compensate their former enslavers. In order to finance this, the Ha\u00eftian government contracted a number of loans from French-owned banks that left the country impoverished and underdeveloped, paving the way for the US invasion and occupation.<\/p>\n<p><strong> Steve Cushion<\/strong> explores how the banks managed to defraud the people of Ha\u00efti and examines the corrupt role of the Ha\u00eftian political elite in facilitating this. Steve Cushion is a Senior Research Fellow at UCL Institute of the Americas.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bernard Coard\u00a0<\/strong>brings the situation up to date and will explain how Debt and Neocolonialism operate in the World today. Bernard Coard was Minister of Finance in Grenada&#8217;s People&#8217;s Revolutionary Government 1979-1983.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CLS zoom meeting &#8211;\u00a0 Sunday 4th May Speakers: Bernard Coard and Steve Cushion Two hundred years ago, the formerly enslaved population of the French colony of Saint Domingue defeated a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meetings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2039"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2081,"href":"https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039\/revisions\/2081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}