First, the private City Bank of New York bankers (now Citigroup), along
with French and German bankers, destabilized Haiti by refusing to pay
Haiti workers for work done on the foreign-financed Haiti railroad, et
al…). Then these powerfully-connected City Bank of New York bankers,
brought the US Marines to Haiti and used them, in the words of the US’s
most decorated marine, as “high class muscle man for Big Business, for
Wall Street and the bankers.” Major General Smedley D. Butler, wrote
that he“was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism…I helped make Haiti
and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect
revenues in.”
